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[rh100]

just "coins", because it wasn't known then that decimal was going to be invented.
Just the same as in the year 100BC, it wasn't known as 100BC, because they didn't know when "0" was going to be.

Amazing, decimilization just happened one day and no one knew it was coming, blimey I suspect decimal had been around for a while, just didn't get taken up by us for a while.

 

[gavintc]

just "coins", because it wasn't known then that decimal was going to be invented.
Just the same as in the year 100BC, it wasn't known as 100BC, because they didn't know when "0" was going to be.

And Britain was, according to bonj, the first to think up this weird thing called decimal. Hallelujah, coins were just coins till this decimal thing came along in the 70's.

 

[swee'pea99]

Them's the ones... red peppers, green peppers, juicy green beans etc

Ho yus! Shame my Dad's not around to know people remember - he'd have been well chuffed.

 

[bonj2]

Amazing, decimilization just happened one day and no one knew it was coming, blimey I suspect decimal had been around for a while, just didn't get taken up by us for a while.

not because it wasn't considered a good idea, only because it probably wasn't convenient at that time.
I think what the OP meant was along the lines of what was it called before decimalsation was invented.

 

[classic33]

just "coins", because it wasn't known then that decimal was going to be invented.
Just the same as in the year 100BC, it wasn't known as 100BC, because they didn't know when "0" was going to be.

We never had a year 0. Hence all the fuss over when the last millennium ended & this one starting.

As the switch came closer, it was old money & new money. For a while after as well.


Anyone else remember what the pound note looked like. Without looking it up.

 

[rh100]

not because it wasn't considered a good idea, only because it probably wasn't convenient at that time.
I think what the OP meant was along the lines of what was it called before decimalsation was invented.

You are right, but would need to go back a fair bit, found this link which states:

Decimalisation was introduced into Britain in 1971, but it was far from being the first country to do so. Way back in 1710 Russia adopted the decimalised version of their currency and set in motion the way towards more and more countries doing the same.

Blimey.

I can't get my head around the old stuff.

 

[classic33]

Odd in some ways as if you go back a bit further back you get these

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/19/newsid_3208000/3208396.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2513000/2513943.stm

 

[summerdays]

Anyone else remember what the pound note looked like. Without looking it up.

Green and small is what I remember - and fairly non crisp.

 

[redjedi]

It's threads like this that make me feel really young again

 

[ASC1951]

the last bus, but when that came trundling past in the dark I didn't have any money for the fare...

Jumpers for goalposts, eh?

And jumpers for wickets. Sitting cross legged inside a heap of sweaty clothes was not a popular position. But it was always the smallest boy from the year below, so who cared?

 

[rh100]

Odd in some ways as if you go back a bit further back you get these

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/19/newsid_3208000/3208396.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2513000/2513943.stm

Hang on a mo' -

Other proposals included a new gambling tax - the proceeds from which will be used to fund cheaper mortgages for the less well off.

What happened to that then?

 

[661-Pete]

There were older threepenny bits than that! I can still (just!) remember the old silver 3d...

Here is my treasured one remaining 'Joey' - silver threepenny bit, photographed alongside a modern 5p so you can gauge the size. It really is tiny, and a lot thinner than the 5p. But it is pure sterling silver - unlike modern coins. The other side is a portrait of George V. I'm not an expert at macro photography, this is the best I can do.

I've been surfing around and uncovered an extraordinary fact. This coin is still legal tender. In fact it's the only coin which was in circulation, pre-decimalisation, which still is legal tender (the 12-sided threepenny bit is not). Its nominal value has been upped to 3p instead of the original 3d (=1.25p). Apparently the reason is because it's indistinguishable from the 3p in the special 'maundy' coinage which is by law defined as legal tender - though no-one in their right mind would spend it!

But the market value to a collector, of a coin like this - if it's in reasonable condition - is around the £1 mark - not immense.