Who remembers (and misses) the old money?

[tweety]

Penny sweets more than doubled in price, wasn't happy.

 

[Stephen230]

Not yet mentioned, but, apart from the Yanks, who the fuck uses Fahrenheit for temperature any more?
Centigrade is much more sensible.

I use Centigrade when it’s cold and Fahrenheit when it’s hot.

So my mind works around how close it is to 0 for cold, or 100 for hot.

 

[Newman Noggs]

I was clearing out my late mum's house recently and came across a tin full of half-crowns. That was real money, men's money. Unfortunately worth next to nothing now.

 

[KS55]

I was clearing out my late mum's house recently and came across a tin full of half-crowns. That was real money, men's money. Unfortunately worth next to nothing now.

Look up the dates. There are some worth a bit.

 

[stan bowles]

Florin was 2 shillings mate 24 pence in old money.

A ten bob note looked like this (This is mine).

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Captain Mainwaring had one similar and gave it to Walker to get some fish n chips for the German U Boat prisoners in "The Deadly Attachment" - the best ever episode of Dad's Army.

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Seem to remember an LP was 32/6

Do you still buy pints of beer ?

No, never full to the brim thank god
Pint for beer is more of a name than a measure, in Spain they sell pints just to make them different from small/normal beers.
Time for another 568ml

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

My father used to waffle on about the benefits of an infinitely divisible base 12 unit of measurement (imperial). He also loved Pounds, Shillings and pence for the same reason.
I never got to use anything other than decimal money and I'm grateful for that. Fractional number systems are a massive pain in the arse when it comes to the math. Metric should be world-universal at this point in our development.

Also, haven't used real money much since COVID. I have a 10'er in my phone case for emergencies but genuinely don't need it. Even beggars have tap-n-go these days.

Was your father Babylonian by any chance with his love of sexagesimal numeracy?
It's because of them we have 60 minutes and 24 hours along with 360 degrees

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Their imperial units of volume are/were different from ours.

Eh?
MLS has a ten yard wall not set at 9.8m?
NFL yards are different than imperial yards?
Miles in US are different than UK miles?
No wonder that spaceship missed because they converted imperial and metric wrong.
Doesn't explain why they went straight to metric for dollars (Spanish origin).

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

I hate international breaks.
Have to post controversial points to help forget it's two weeks until proper football

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

And here I was thinking the answer was going to be “because it was actually worth something!”

“As bent as a nine bob note!” was an old saying I remember hearing a time or two!!

And, my gran used to use the phrase
“_____ isn’t worth tuppence ha’penny!”

Used to visit my old, old grandparents on my Dad’s side every Sunday and they’d both slip us a sixpence for pocket money and they would both say, “Don’t tell your Grandpa/ma, she’ll think I’m made of money!”

You could walk around like a king on Monday with two sixpence in your pocket! Sadly, you’d be light a penny, possibly two, before you got home from school! Wasn’t sure whether it would be Bazooka Joe, strawberry sherbets, traffic lights, candy shrimps, or maybe wine gums, but, regardless of the choice, there wouldn’t be a shilling in my pocket by the time I got home for tea on Monday!

Ah, the good old days!

I have a very similar memory. I only had one living grandparent and, just like you, he'd give me and my brother 6d each every Friday. We would dash round to the corner grocer's shop, the lady owner kept three shoe boxes filled with individual sweets. The farthing box, the halfpenny box and the penny box.
My brother and I would spend ages, much to the owners annoyance, trying to decide what to buy.

 

[idahoblues]

I have a very similar memory. I only had one living grandparent and, just like you, he'd give me and my brother 6d each every Friday. We would dash round to the corner grocer's shop, the lady owner kept three shoe boxes filled with individual sweets. The farthing box, the halfpenny box and the penny box.
My brother and I would spend ages, much to the owners annoyance, trying to decide what to buy.

Me too

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Eh?
MLS has a ten yard wall not set at 9.8m?
NFL yards are different than imperial yards?
Miles in US are different than UK miles?
No wonder that spaceship missed because they converted imperial and metric wrong.
Doesn't explain why they went straight to metric for dollars (Spanish origin).

A US gallon, a measure of volume, is not the same as a U.K. gallon.

I have no idea what the rest of your drivel means.

 

[NPBlue]

I remember going into a shop a few days after we had decimalised, probably to buy some sweets, and he tried ripping me off with my change. It didn't work, and he got annoyed with me pointing out the error of his ways. I was 13 at the time.

I also remember around that time all of us schoolchildren receiving a blue folder with all the new coins inside, including a 50p piece. That coin on it's own was a fortune to us when a bar of chocolate cost something like 6d, or 2.5p at the time, and I don't suppose many of those coins remained in that folder for very long. I know mine didn't.

 

[city2]

I remember my pants always falling down with a few penny coins in my pockets they weighed a ton .

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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. :)

FFS

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I remember going into a shop a few days after we had decimalised, probably to buy some sweets, and he tried ripping me off with my change. It didn't work, and he got annoyed with me pointing out the error of his ways. I was 13 at the time.

I also remember around that time all of us schoolchildren receiving a blue folder with all the new coins inside, including a 50p piece. That coin on it's own was a fortune to us when a bar of chocolate cost something like 6d, or 2.5p at the time, and I don't suppose many of those coins remained in that folder for very long. I know mine didn't.

I used to get 4 Fruit Salads or Black Jacks for 1d.
Decimilisation came along and we got 2 for 1p. As an 8 or 9 year old I felt ripped off

 

[Eccles Blue]

We had the old desks with the inkwells built in it but we were given pots of ink and blotting paper.

I was ink monitor because I was always early for school. :-)

 

[Bill Walker]

I was ink monitor because I was always early for school. :-)

Teachers pet. :)

 

[69FACUPfinal]

I remember going into a shop a few days after we had decimalised, probably to buy some sweets, and he tried ripping me off with my change. It didn't work, and he got annoyed with me pointing out the error of his ways. I was 13 at the time.

I also remember around that time all of us schoolchildren receiving a blue folder with all the new coins inside, including a 50p piece. That coin on it's own was a fortune to us when a bar of chocolate cost something like 6d, or 2.5p at the time, and I don't suppose many of those coins remained in that folder for very long. I know mine didn't.

I know Cadbury Creme eggs which had been 6 1/2 d ( old pennies) went up to 3p overnight 15 Feb 71. We probably got one of those presentation sets, but it has gone from my memory.I knew at that point we had been ripped off - I was just 13 at the time.

We got taught really well in my school so we were prepared. However now as an FoC ( f) I do so feel retrospectively for early 70s older folks. This is because even though I got a maths olevel proper pass ( Grade 5), I have always struggled with metric especially kilometres - despite my dad, who was born in 1920 and a maths whizz patiently explaining it to me as recently as 2014. And failing, bless him x Now dad no longer here I have to rely on my offspring for metric assistance especially if I can't do the 1 metre is 3'3" rule, after which without son am fecked :-) .

I miss City too from late 60s/ early 70s - at the time of decilimalisation I was hoping we could retain the ECWC. I hated Chelsea from then onwards ( won 2-0 aggregate in semi final - The King was injured Easter '71) until Spurs took over that mantle in 1981. Then the Chavs dislike returned in 2021.....

 

[J.G.Blue.]

I remember going into a shop a few days after we had decimalised, probably to buy some sweets, and he tried ripping me off with my change. It didn't work, and he got annoyed with me pointing out the error of his ways. I was 13 at the time.

I also remember around that time all of us schoolchildren receiving a blue folder with all the new coins inside, including a 50p piece. That coin on it's own was a fortune to us when a bar of chocolate cost something like 6d, or 2.5p at the time, and I don't suppose many of those coins remained in that folder for very long. I know mine didn't.

Thats remimded me, I think I was about 10 years old, my Nan had a shiny new 50p coin & us kids were allowed to look at it, it seemed like a absolute fortune at the time?
Once a week dad would give us 6d each to go to the sweet shop & you could either get a bar of chocolate or loads of bits, Flying saucers or a sherbert dip were usually included,
I remember my mate stealing some money, a pound note? out of his mums bag & we went straight to the sweet shop & got a old Jamaica bar but the old hag serving in the sweet shop told his mum & I honestly thought we were going to Jail! Happy days but god I feel old now :-)