New Decimal Money!

by **Annie** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:25 pm

I just read this article on line at the Scotsman website! Can you remember when this happened too?

FACT OF THE DAY

The first decimal coins were introduced in the United Kingdom on this day in 1968. The new five and ten pence coins were designed to correspond both in size and value to the shillings and florins they would eventually replace when full decimalisation came into effect in 1971.

heritage.scotsman.com

by **jane59** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:28 pm

We`re getting auld Anne .....I too remember auld money .
The weans noo a days laugh when you mention whit you could buy with siver 6pence.!

by **jaywalker** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:43 pm

Silver sixpence? You were lucky, when I were young we used to dream of a silver sixpence. Thrupenny bit I got, and only once a week at that...
No hold on that was Monty Python, Getting mixed up.. sorry. :lol:

by **Sweltered** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:19 pm

jane59 wrote:We`re getting auld Anne .....I too remember auld money .
The weans noo a days laugh when you mention whit you could buy with siver 6pence.!

I can remember using old sixpence on Malcom McKay's grocer van . Only just mind. After all, I was only a year old when decimalisation came in.

by **petewick** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:59 pm

Sweltered wrote:
jane59 wrote:We`re getting auld Anne .....I too remember auld money .
The weans noo a days laugh when you mention whit you could buy with siver 6pence.!

I can remember using old sixpence on Malcom McKay's grocer van . Only just mind. After all, I was only a year old when decimalisation came in.

And when ye got a 10 bob note ye were in heaven.
Man them were the days.

petewick

by **Annie** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:49 pm

I remember getting a half crown on my birthday!

by **jdcarra** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:27 pm

jane59 wrote:We`re getting auld Anne .....I too remember auld money .
The weans noo a days laugh when you mention whit you could buy with siver 6pence.!

And here is a reminder of some of it for all us auld yens ( well nearly auld) and of the new gen that possibly have not seen any. :lol:

Decimalisation happened on 15th February 1971.

by **jane59** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:59 pm

I still have some of those old coins somewhere!

by **take_a_pop** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:07 pm

jane59 wrote:I still have some of those old coins somewhere!

Aye, in yur bluddy purse Jane, yur a bloody auld skin flint yeh.

by **jane59** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:10 pm

aye auld yin lik yerself........(jist open said purse and a big moth flew oot)

by **take_a_pop** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:23 pm

Aff jeest foun the best wae oh savin yur money Jane59, heers whit aff dun and its a garanteed wae tae save yur pound notes, buy yursel a laminater, an laminate thim then ye canna spen thim, hows thit fur a savin plan, naebudy will take thim whin thur dun lake thit.
Aff git hunners oh pouns dun lake this, an it keeps thim clean tae.

by **Annie** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:50 pm

Pop, you are too freaking funny!!!!!!!

by **Big Bob** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:26 pm

I mind the 'wudden thrupenny' well.

by **Martin** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:34 pm

by **Annie** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:40 pm

That reminds me of a funny story! When I was wee, and the first time I saw a Thrupenny, I thought it was so damn brilliant I swallowed it! Had to wait a couple of days tae see it again!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!

New Decimal Money!

New Decimal Money!

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