jamesg1213
sharke
bitflipper
BTW, I was living in England when the currency switched to base10. Some of you are old enough to remember the chaos that followed when retailers capitalized on the confusion to raise prices on everything.
After all this time though, you still have older people who think partially in the old money. My dad will sometimes say "It was good value, only 12 bob," bob being the slang for a shilling.
It's 50p to put air in your tyres around here. Half a quid. That was 10 bob...I could buy a box of Britain's soldiers for 10 bob...
Absolutely, if you got a ten bob note in a birthday or Christmas card you were minted
I suppose in our own way, we were sort of working in decimal currency even when it was still £sd. Two bob, five bob & ten bob were always 'round number' amounts (equivalent, to those unfamiliar with our pre-decimal currency to 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 of a quid).