When 5/- (shillings) was referred to as a dollar.
If so you use be getting old. Like me.
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When 5/- (shillings) was referred to as a dollar.
If so you use be getting old. Like me.
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Half crown...’arf a dollar:old:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
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I remember my grandfather using 'dollar' for five shillings back in the 60s - but never heard it from anyone else. He's so old he's been dead for almost 40 years!
I don't remember a five-shilling piece but I do remember the half-a-crown coin. Couple of those in your trouser pocket and you had to tighten your belt.
25p chips in les croups used to be called dollar chips.
Yep, my grandparents used to say a dollar for five shillings, many years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
All the above :old:
Ha yes they were quite heavy coins. Even though the five shilling piece was legal tender I never saw any in circulation. I do however own a few, one of them with Winston Churchill on I do believe it came out when he died. Can also remember the farthings and three penny bit. What an old codger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seabird
I don’t remember farthings but they disappeared a fair time before the threepenny bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malckent
Yes you are right. I was born in 53 and they went out of circulation in 56. I never used them but for some reason or another my mum and dad still had them in jars in the house and ive got them now.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I remember the old 'Florin' coins.
2/-Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
I remember taking 2 half crowns to Junior School on a Monday morning to pay for a week's school dinners. Half a Crown was a substantial coin but was withdrawn in 1970 before decimalisation. Is Junior School still a phrase in usage or has that gone like the half crown ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seabird
In my day it was infants, juniors and seniors then get a flipping job. Nowadays its year 5 or year 8 etc, leaves me baffled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
It was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malckent
There are some ‘Old Farts’ on here, thought I was the only one :old::old::old:
Ah, the two bob bits, had them many a time after a session.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
Just waiting for someone to mention groats:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
Honestly no, first time I’ve heard it called a Dollar. What’s the old fart threshold? I was born in the 50s but only just.
You have to make your own mind up on ‘Old Fart’ threshold, let’s just say before ……….Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
I remember the farthing, with the wren on the reverse - but I think it was an old coin after they went out of circulation as I'd have been t oo young to have been spending them.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
But I have a threepenny bit (pronounced "thruppenny" ) as I told my kids about xmas stocking with an apple and/or orange and a 3d bit at the bottom.
They got me a threepenny bit one year minted in the year of my birth, cheeky sods
And who remembers someone who was useless at heading the ball being described as having a head like a 'thrupenny' bit?
Pounds, shillings & pence were a great test of mental arithmetic and reckoning up, I’ll stick my neck out here and say that us fossils who were used to the different mixed denominations, 240d to the £, 12d to a shilling etc are better at maths mentally due to this. Strange how 50 years have gone by yet I still say 30 bob rather than the boring One Pound Fifty. Reading about old coins the other day and was surprised to find out that a tanner was previously nicknamed a bender, due to the high silver content it was easy to bend. In the 19th century it was easy to go out and get pissed on 2d, so with 6d you could get hammered, hence the term ‘going on a bender’.
It was Standard 1 to 4 in juniorsQuote:
Originally Posted by Malckent
Form 1 to Form 6 in High School
Year 6 was further divided into lower 6th upper 6th and 3rd year 6th (this last being for those resiting their A Levels
That's exactly how I remember it.:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
And Form 1-4 in Secondary Modern.
I can remember when they 'called in' the old halfpenny, because we gathered them all up and went down to Mrs Dibble's shop (junction of Plassey Street and Albert Road, Penarth) to blow them all on sweets.
And that's another thing - Black Jacks, Fruit Salads, Parma Violets, humbugs, Bazooka Joe bubble gum, flying saucers, Spanish Root, Pirates Gold, sweet cigarettes....
A few of those you mentioned came in the ‘4 for a 1d’ category, did that become ‘4 for 1/2p’? Which would still have been an unavoidable price increase, 1/2p being 1.2d, buggers, ripping off the kids:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by tforturton
The old florin before 1938 I think had a significantly higher value because of its silver content. Back in the 60's there was quite a market in selling them to certain people who would melt them down and reclaim the silver. All strictly illegal of course. Defacing a coin of the realm etc.
Also 5 shillings was called a dollar as at the time there were 4 Dollars to the pound. My Dad and Uncles always referred to it as that so naturally I did as well.
I agree about the mental arithmetic but it wasn't only money. 16 ounces to pound, 14 pounds to a stone 8 stone to a Cwt, 20 cwt to a ton lol. A barrel, a ferkin, a tun, a gross, then you had feet and inches (Yes we still have) chains, poles, furlongs, leagues and many more.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
And the names of coins, tanner as you said, thrupence thrupenny bit, florin half a crown/dollar, ha'penny, tuppence, shilling, ten bob. I can still recall old guys in the pub calling a pound a sov.
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Whilst teaching a primary class, I showed them a long multiplication and long division sum in £sd. They were boss eyed.
£44 .. 7s .. 3d ÷ 21
£62 .. 15s .. 11d x 32
Nuff said.
StT.
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Using a lolly stick to get coins out of telephone boxes......