Who remembers (and misses) the old money?

I pretty much only use metric these days with living outside the UK. Half litres have replaced pints and kilometres have replaced miles etc. I think I have always used metric for money, height, weight etc even while living in England.

The only things I still use imperial for are golf, where I still think in terms of yardage, and fishing line which used to be (and still is by me) measured in lb breaking strain but now seems to be more line diameter in mm.
 
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Old money was heavy 12d in a shilling, 240d in a pound. We’ve been ripped off over and over again with monetary devaluation, the change over to decimalisation and entry into the EU.
We gave all the valuable coins to family, Modern money is better and lighter much easier to count as the value has been destroyed.
 
Bill Walker said:
Come on you FOCs, I miss the interesting old money. It had character and a certain charm..... didn't it?

Just as the pound had nicknames—e.g., a quid—so a shilling was a bob. A single record might cost six bob [30p]. Ten shillings [50p] was ten bob. £1 10s [£1.50] could be written as 30s and said as thirty bob. Coins took on these and other nicknames: the 3d was a threppence or thruppence, the 6d (sixpence) was a tanner, two shillings two bob, and the large silver coin worth two and six (2s 6d) was half a crown or a half-crown. Two pence (2d) was known as tuppence, and fractions of a penny were known as the ha’penny (half-penny) and farthing (quarter of a penny, phased out in 1960). Something costing just pennies—e.g., 4d—would be known as four penn’orth, short for “four pennies worth.”
There were several ways of writing shillings and pence, so eight and six could be 8s 6d or 8/6 or even 8/6d.

More interesting than this multiples of ten boring crap. :)
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I don’t miss it all though it bought more, everything used to be one,two, three and eleven,? we lost a penny when it was rounded up to the pound
 
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I love collecting old coins....I got it from my father. Got to understand the value of rare dates and the states of measuring value.

With the old money
....it's memories that you have with some of them growing up....from birthdays to first hard earned cash and large notes getting rounds down the bar with mates etc.
 
ali benarbia's studs said:
I love collecting old coins....I got it from my father. Got to understand the value of rare dates and the states of measuring value.

With the old money
....it's memories that you have with some of them growing up....from birthdays to first hard earned cash and large notes getting rounds down the bar with mates etc.
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My oldest coin is 1800 years old and newest is a Charlie 1oz silver Britannia, however my favourite coin is a holed Canadian 1/4 farthing. At the time of its mint you could buy a pint with it if you bump that up that'd be 8 pints for a penny and 1920 pints for a pound.

Inflation ehhh :)

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Prestwich_Blue said:
The advantage of the old system and 240 pennies to a pound was that you could split a bill 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 ways, whereas it's only 2, 4, 5 & 10 with decimal coinage.
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I always thought that old money made it much easier to work in fractions. You could halve, quarter, third, sixth and twelfth a shilling. Once we got ten pence in, er, a fuckin' ten pence facility with fractions went out of the window.
 
Spare Money gets passed down the generations odd pieces of silver a Russian rouble and a really old penny.
I’ve got half a crown and a ten bob note, threepenny bits all sorts of junk even the old Irish money. We all go on holiday, America Spain wherever and the spare change ends up in a drawer.:)
 
12 inches make a foot.
3 feet make a yard.
22 yards make a chain.
10 chains make a furlong.
8 furlongs make a mile.

Drlled into my head when the bus fare to school was 2d and dinner money was 2/6 (half a crown)for the week.

In todays money, thats about 1p for the bus ride and 12.5p for plates of hearty grub with steamed pudding and custard to follow
 
NPBlue said:
12 inches make a foot.
3 feet make a yard.
22 yards make a chain.
10 chains make a furlong.
8 furlongs make a mile.

Drlled into my head when the bus fare to school was 2d and dinner money was 2/6 (half a crown)for the week.

In todays money, thats about 1p for the bus ride and 12.5p for plates of hearty grub with steamed pudding and custard to follow
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Most people I know weigh themselves in pounds and ounces and inches and feet, we still use miles for distance. It's part of our culture and it'll stay that way for a long time to come.

Being averse to anachronistic values ignores our history, new isn't always better and in most cases it's better than this plastic homogenised shit of a world culture we have now.
 
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