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Printable information sheet to attach to 1956 Tanner (Sixpence)
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This is not collectible.
I found some old pre-decimal currency coins ............ decided to send them travelling. This is one of 9 coin TBs set going on our trip to Australia in 2014.
Some explanation of old English currency just before Decimalisation Day on 15 February 1971.
Pre-decimal Decimal
Common name Amount
Farthing ¼d 5⁄48p ≈ 0.104p ceased legal tender in December 1960
Halfpenny ½d 5⁄24p ≈ 0.208p 'appence New 1/2 pence phased out in December 1981.
3 half pennies also called threeappence [a foot …....’ (qv)]
Penny 1d 5⁄12p ≈ 0.417p also referred to as ‘coppers or copper’
2d known as a Tuppence
Threepence 3d 1¼p Thruppence
Sixpence 6d 2½p Tanner
Shilling 1/- 5p Bob
Florin/Two shillings 2/- 10p Two bob
Half crown 2/6 12½p price of a pint of 'best' bitter in 1966
Crown 5/- 25p
Pound 20/- 100p In old currency this was a note - not a coin
Also there was a smaller 10 shilling 10/- note
Guinea 21/- 105p Still used 'virtually' by auctioneers up until quite recently -
perhaps in thoroughbred horse sales it still is !!!
Therefore £1 pound was made up of 240 pennies, 80 thruppences, 40 sixpences(tanners), 20 shillings (bobs), 10 florins, 8 half crowns, 4 crowns or two ten shilling notes.
Can you imagine 8 pints of best bitter beer for £1 in 1966!
Farthings worth 1/4 penny had been withdrawn from circulation on 31st December 1960.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthing_%28British_coin%29