@esayaf wrote:
I was born in '67 so I have no memory of the old money.
Open day at the mint today. Special gold plated round 50 cent for those that visit.
I wish I was within driving distance to Canberra
I remember when decimal currency came in. Like most people of my age, I can still sing the song that got saturation airplay on TV.
The school tuckshop was very popular in the first week. We'd go in with a 6d, buy a cream wafer biscuit (the cheapest thing sold) and get shiny new 2c and 1c coins as change. I still have a 6in ruler somewhere - one of those lenticular ones in yellow and black, where depending on how you view it, would display the old currency one way and the equivalent in decimal values in another. Odd to think it is now 50 years old and I still have it.
Maths (at least dealing with money) suddenly became a lot easier overnight. Dollars and cents..pfft. Try doing similar sums in pounds, shillings and pence, not to mention guineas and pence as small as halfpennies and farthings. I don't miss those!
When hubby and I moved to Melbourne c1980, we were stunned to see a local butcher had his prices in decimal currency and in the old currency. I don't know if it was because he was resistant to change (the sign about the shop said 'Scottish Butcher' LOL) or his customers were....or he didn't want to throw out his old imperial plastic labels. I think the old prices finally disappeared a couple of years later.
i wonder why its taking so long maybe it being on the news means its actualy going to happen ???
