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          ®i©ardo  wrote:

> Graeme Wall wrote:
> > In message 
> >           Peter Beale  wrote:
> > 
> >> ®i©ardo wrote:
> >>
> >>> It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for decimalisation 
> >>> in 1971, and there was a transition period allowing dual use of silver 
> >>> coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and 
> >>> the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970 that the 10/- note was withdrawn from 
> >>> circulation.
> >>>
> >>> More here:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html
> >> As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly at 
> >> the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as an 
> >> integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had a 10/- 
> >> dollar would have been more sensible. 
> > 
> > But would have had all the Little Englanders up in arms at the loss of the
> > Thousand Year Reich^^^^ Thousand Years of History
> > 
> At least they have a history - and why just select the "Little 
> Englanders"? There's quite a few militants about nothing in the other 
> constituent parts of the UK!
> 

wooosh!

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