Explore tweets tagged as #decimalisation
In 1968, Zambia completed the full decimalisation process. The new system introduced banknotes (K1, K2, K10, K20) and coins (50N, 20N, 10N, 5N, 2N, 1N). The new K1 replaced the old 10 shilling note; the K10 replaced the £5. The Kwacha was pegged at US$1.40.
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@RDLaverty @TheCriticMag In the 70s soap operates ran propaganda for decimalisation, claiming that 100 pennies to the pound was more British than our currency which had roots back to ancient Rome, which was dismissed as "Italian". It was either Emmerdale or Coronation Street iirc
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Around about this time 60yrs ago, I took some pennies I’d found (or stolen) to the shop around the corner from our Betterment Pde Corowa NSW home. Despite #decimalisation they gave me the lollies even though it was past the cut-off date. Legends.
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@davidsoskin @BlackstarOlivia @createngland @FXMC1957 I think my favourite was the half-crown, while the florin (two-shilling coin) was the most disappointing (perhaps because it wasn’t a half-crown, which gave you sixpence more). (I believe the florin was a relic of an earlier, but failed, scheme of decimalisation).
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@Amelia558rs There was no minimum wage when I started working and I was paid £3.1/6 for a week (£3.075 in post decimalisation money)
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@BernadettePro17 Shows the standard of USA education, in UK those tables are called multiplication tables, “Times” is just easier to recite than “multiplied by” in rota learning. Due to decimalisation of the 🇬🇧 currency the twelve and eleven multiplication tables where dropped before I had to
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@ArsenalNews_Hub 🤣🤣🤣 I would pmsl if Arsenal win their first title since decimalisation by default. But let’s be honest , Paul Merson can’t predict what he’s having for tea, never mind the outcome of any football match, or league winners
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In terms of the coins in your pocket, it’s useless The first casualty of decimalisation https://t.co/muUrnTsXbY
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I remember it well. We had lessons at school about how it would change our money and I went to a decimalisation day dance
15 February 1971. Decimalisation of British coinage was completed on what was called “Decimal Day”. Before this date, the British pound was made up of 20 shillings and a total of 240 pennies. With decimalisation, the pound was subdivided into 100 “new pence”.
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Sunny with a cold wind.2 bags of litter picked from Seaton Park wetland area.Old cans ripped & pecked by local crows.Groundworks have thrown up vintage KP Cheese Crunchies bag dated March 1989 & Pascall Eclairs cost 1/6.That's one shilling & sixpence so pre-decimalisation 1971 🙄
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This packet is post decimalisation in 1971 as it shows 5p. Earlier packets I found show 3d and 7d/3p. Later packets from the 1980s have an updated design. So if we suggest 1975 as a reasonable guess, then the inflation calculator states this packet would cost 39p today. It looks
A packet of Golden Wonder crisps for 5p. And even at that price, all of those years ago, the manufacturer and retailer were still making a profit.
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Decimalisation Day (yes fellow yanks that’s how they spell it) When they finally rid themselves of a monetary system they inherited from King Charlemagne
On this day in 1971 the United Kingdom and Ireland adopted the decimal system.
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I don't know... "A tuppence was a British pre-decimal coin worth two old pence, or 1/120 of a pound sterling. It was used in the UK and Ireland before decimalisation in 1971. The term "thruppence" referred to three pence, equivalent to 1/80 of a pound."
doesn't this completely destroy the ability to pay with cash, long run?
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I'm still trying to use one of them shillings in the puggie. Have they upgraded to decimalisation?
#Otd 1928: 1st independent Irish coinage circulated. 8 coins: woodcock, sow & litter, hen & chicks, hare, wolfhound, bull, salmon & horse! The committee that chose the winning designs (from relatively unknown Englishman Percy Metcalfe) was headed by Senator W.B. Yeats.
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@SharkyTheAlien @takingiteasy62 @PostsNoContext @ayeejuju I get it. I agree. I haven't seen 2•2 since school and not aware people use it, but in a world of decimalisation and ratios, it's a dumb expression. 2•2 ⍯ 2.2
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Verrückte Spielpuppen sind ja überall!!! In more and more countries goverment poppets are bowing for the corruption of the agenda of the poppeteers .. Islamisation works perfectly as distraction to unfold the decimalisation of the world population. #TheGreatReset
Some schools in Germany will not have music lessons because they don't want to offend sensibilities of Muslims, who consider music a grave sin. It sounds like a joke but it's not.
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"that's just my 2 pence" "if even as someone as bright as you has fallen for the decimalisation farce, Britain can just pack it in right now*
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