Posted 03/31/2012 09:55 am
1. From the first decimal coin production in 1968 up to 1981, all British decimal coins had "NEW PENCE" instead of the denomination value in words. This was to remind everyone that the new penny was different in value to the old penny. They dropped the "NEW" from 1982 onwards.
2. It wasn't a direct one-for-one exchange. Actually, you would have needed 2.4 old halfpennies to give the equivalent value of one new halfpenny. Or to put it in other words, you would have needed 10 new halfpennies to get 5p worth of money; on Decimal Day you'd have needed 24 old halfpennies to get that same 5p piece.
3. Try this website.
2. It wasn't a direct one-for-one exchange. Actually, you would have needed 2.4 old halfpennies to give the equivalent value of one new halfpenny. Or to put it in other words, you would have needed 10 new halfpennies to get 5p worth of money; on Decimal Day you'd have needed 24 old halfpennies to get that same 5p piece.
3. Try this website.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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