…on this day, 44 years ago, on 15 February 1971, known as Decimal Day, the United Kingdom and Ireland decimalised their currencies… and an entire coinage system that had stood for centuries was wiped away… oh, what monetary perfidy… what abysmal subjugation of our cash heritage… the coin-maths education of swathes of us of a certain age was lumped, thumped and dumped into the nearest money-bin… no longer were we to rejoice in handling the farthings, half-pennies, pennies, threepenny bits, sixpenny pieces, shillings, florins, half-crowns and even crowns that weighed so well in our pockets … and worse still, the kidnap and disappearance forever of the LUVLY red-orangey ten-bob note… H.M Exchequer had exclaimed, then proclaimed, then claimed, our ‘old’ money was to be replaced with the decimal system so well-beloved by just about the entire rest of the WURLD…
…and this island nation took its first…
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