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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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.
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.
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.
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?
25p chips in les croups used to be called dollar chips.
All the above
I remember the old 'Florin' coins.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
Using a lolly stick to get coins out of telephone boxes......