Shoppers had to learn how to use decimalised currency from 15 February 1971 Do you remember the tanner, shilling, florin and half crown? If you do, you must be at least in your 40s, because it was ...

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Fifty years ago, the UK converted to a decimal currency, and one and two new pence coins became the modern way to pay. Now, there is another debate, over the need to keep notes and coins when we ...

The move from the ancient system of £sd coinage to 100p to £1 was controversial, considered by some to be a sign of the UK's receding importance on the world stage and even as the beginning of the ...

The overnight decimalisation of the pound in 1971 seemed almost bound to go wrong - after all, all the right coins had to be in all the right places, and every shopper in the country needed at least ...

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It’s 50 years since the UK replaced its centuries-old £sd coinage with a new, streamlined decimal currency. The shift away from a currency that divided the pound into 20 shillings, each of which was ...

It is 40 years since poetry yielded to pragmatism. On February 15, 1971, the old paper 10-bob note – brown, grubby, frayed and dog-eared – was finally replaced by a shiny, equilaterally curved ...

Noel Moore was a senior civil servant who, selected to oversee the practical implementation of decimalisation in Britain, made a remarkable success of the task. In 1961 he was appointed Secretary of ...

After decimalisation, there were pogroms against gallons, quarts, ounces, gills, minims, spoons, pecks, bushels, firkins, hogsheads, feet and cords Credit: Photo: ALAMY It was the process of ...