Pounds shillings and pence

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im in my 50s, too young to remember decimilisation in 1971 but I know about pounds, Guineas, sixpence etc. 20 shillings = 1 pound. Pence (d) – 12 pence = 1 shilling. 240 pence = 1 pound.

colleague in his 20s had never heard of this. I mean surely mos5 people have seen it in a film or read a book set in the 60s?

or am I really just old.

I just asked my 19 year old and he knew (more or less) what a shilling was. However I don't think it's unusual that your colleague doesn't, in any case, not more unusual than my 85 year old mother not knowing what a "Bluetooth connection" is

A pound was 240 pence.
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = £1.

Coins included hapennies ( half a penny) penny, three penny bit, sixpence, shilling, half crown. 10 shillings was a note (10 bob note colloquially) once upon a time there was a farthing ( quarter of a penny, that had a wren I think on the coin, discontinued before my time)

I can still convert “old money “ to “new money” and vice versa. I think the more complicated old system and the way we had to do mental arithmetic at speed made my generation quite good at maths. As you can tell, I’m old!

My DF lived oversea as a child in a country using decimal currency. He had to learn pounds, shillings and pence when he moved to the UK in the late 1940s.

I've got several old coins including the lovely farthing. I remember a bag of crisps was a tanner (6d) and came with a little blue packet of salt.

@Justmeandthedog1
Yes I know I got it wrong, I corrected myself shortly after

I have quite a lot of old coins.

Have any of you seen the size of a 1797 Cartwheel penny?!