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Comment from : Lalnunzaua hnamte Lalnunzaua hnamte

doing this for a maths lesson, to learn how to take notes lmao
Comment from : illegallylexi

Australia and New Zealand went £1 was $2, so one shilling was 10 cents Ignoring the 12 conversion factor, this was much easier than what you Brits went through
Comment from : LIM PEH KA LI KONG

Four or five years ago I found an old penny that had accidentally been given to me in change, mistaken for a 2p How it had remained in circulation fifty years after it was redundant is a mystery
Comment from : Elaine the Musician

The UK, the only country in the world to resortto baby language mentality and using a vegetable to name its money denomination as "peas" What a load of dumbed-down cabbages I don't hearanyon in the USA or the Eurozone calling their cents "Cs" It's not "P" it's "pence"
Comment from : Candolad

Remember the day ,I was 9, was snowing where I lived in Manchester
Comment from : peter dockrill

The old system won't work today because everybody is autistic and cant do the math
Comment from : Kaine Bassett

The 2 shilling coin was permanently withdrawn in 1993 having co-existed alongside the 10p coin although I very much doubt anyone used it past the 1970s I have a couple of them
Comment from : nicholasr39

My gran knew both pre decimal and decimal very well
Comment from : mel grant

gentleman I have one coin please reply me
Comment from : Md Washim

I was 11 Remember it well At school we used sing "On 15th day of February 1971 there is going to be, decimal currency, just you wait and see, with a 100 pennies to the pound" We kids got used to it quick The adults were all unhappy about it Old people were very confused My parents claimed prices shot up
Comment from : Occident Advocate

Who do I talk too about selling my 1971 2newpence coin
Comment from : Raymond Birchell

Tenho esta moeda 1971 vendo
Comment from : Arlindo Santos

I Have A One Coin 2 New Pence 1971
Comment from : Bajrang Lal

J'ai en ma possession 4 pièces 1971 2 new pence Combien puis je les vendre Merci ainsi que 4 pièces 1971 1/2 Penny
Comment from : Anita Denaud

i have to cons new pence 1971
Comment from : Akbar Ali Sindhi

I have more coins of Queen Elizabeth II, and I have a pcs of 1971 how can I sell?
Comment from : Jose Salen

Meanwhile in the US we had Apollo and Vietnam during this time Can’t image if we had to change our currency today Probably would be a road easier though
Comment from : MIDNIGHT2267

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Comment from : News1baat

I was 10 years old, a bit over a month-and-a-half out from my 11th birthday when decimal currency was introduced in 1966 using an animated cartoon featuring a character called *Dollar Bill*, voiced by Ian Turpie singing a jingle based on an old Australian folk song, "Click Go The Shears" The lyric went:brbrbIn come the Dollars and in come the Cents,/bbrbTo replace the Pounds, the Shillings and the Pence/bbrbBe prepare, folks when the coins begin to mix/bbrbOn the 14th of February, 1966!/bbrbrOn the day of the changeover, us kids going to Stockton Primary School lined up in front of the school canteen(long since demolished) while one of the teachers, a Mr Burns, exchanged our old threepenny, sixpence, shilling and two-chilling coins, as well as the copper half- and one-penny coins we may have had, into new 1- and 2-cent copper coins, 5-, 10-, 20- and perhaps 50-cent silver coins As kids, we were unlikely to be carrying any pounds(unless we were overweight! LOL)
Comment from : Neil Forbes

15th February, 1971? Five years and one day(by calendar, not by international dateline difference) bAFTER/b Australia made the change But we adopted the Dollar and Cent in spite of bPig Iron Bob/b Menzies, in ultra-cringe mode, wanting to call the currency "The Royal"! (UGH!) How embarrassing would that have been? Menzies always was a royal arse-licker! Good riddance to him!
Comment from : Neil Forbes

Interesting I remember the "Decimal Day" adverts I was four years old and they are the earliest things I remember from watching TV But I remember spending the sixpence in sweet shops for many years after They were accepted as being worth 2 and a half pence, weren't they? Or am I misremembering that?
Comment from : Rhys Hughes

Because Queen Elizabeth II, is my favorite Queen, All Queen Elizabeth II, Coins I collected Not only the Great Britain Coins, All Queen Elizabeth II including HK, Canada, Australia and many others
Comment from : Jose Salen

I have this decimal coin of 1971
Comment from : Sthembiso Abednigo

That was the day that our spending power was slashed, money went much further with the old currency, spend 100 pennies of your pound today and you have nothing left, when we were pre-decimal, if we spent 100 pennies we still had 140 left, people who were not around at that time will never know what they missed out on, what a con job they pulled on us
Comment from : Malcolm Henaughan

The day every price in the uk was rounded up The day we went to litiers and kilos all the weights were rounded down Thats when the rot set in, in the uk
Comment from : johns shed

That Granny Gets The Point film is hilarious due to all the family members repeatedly taking about LSD
Comment from : gotham61

Being a lover of British quirks, I think you should have kept the old system It was far more interesting than decimals, and taught people to think mathematically in a most healthy way
Comment from : Fredrik Larsson

thanks for uploading this videobrwe did change the coins sizes for two yrs agobrthe new coins a crappy in size they look like play money coinsbr👍👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪👍👍👍👍
Comment from : mimers well

Hello
Comment from : ayaz khan

I can feel the old folks pain as an American On paper switching to decimals should be so easy but it’s like I know what a foot looks like, what a yard is intrinsically I have to think about a meter or a kilometer
Comment from : N B

b51 years!/b
Comment from : Revin Hatol

I feel that this would be not possible In nowadays politics
Comment from : That Guy

16:14 That's Cherie and Marie Currie, and possibly another sister; Cherie being in the band The Runaways with Joan Jett and Lita Ford Not British youth 🙂
Comment from : Winters Battle of Bands

As an AmericanI'm lost as per how it works in Brittain to begin with and to find out y'all used fractions for your money is even weirder
Comment from : Christopher Yanoski

I am too young to remember this - my dad was 12 so remembers it quite wellbrThe double prices reminds me of visiting France after the adoption of the Euro where you could see both prices displayed in shops brAs I was a primary teacher for 10 years, whenever we did units of measurement, I'd have a bit of fun by discussing the old units and watching the children look at me like I was telling them dragons really exist!
Comment from : Building on a Budget Models

I have 1971 new pence ladysmith KwaZulu natal Ezakheni what I must do
Comment from : Sthembiso Abednigo

New🙏pence🙏1971coin
Comment from : Dinanath Bha r

Replace a good characterful historic coinage system going back 2000 years with something bland and functional but totally boring
Comment from : WrightsW5

The Beatles were asked to write a song, All You Need Is Love, and perform it 9n the very first global satellite broadcast brThe Scaffold were asked to help ease the nation into decimalisation
Comment from : Spork & Findus

The USA made a smart decision to shift to decimal currency back in the 1700sunfortunately we never took the next step to go metric Or should I say, we did start the process in the 1970s but Ronald Reagan and his buddies brought that to an end when he was elected president in 1980
Comment from : hebneh

As I was born in 1970, the change-over did not affect me I was just eight months old on Decimal Day and so have never known the pounds shillings and pence!
Comment from : Angela Cooper

Mr Rumbold?
Comment from : Jerry Hinkle

Pounds, Shillings, and Pence It was as if one nation had three different currencies So very confusing!
Comment from : Jonathan Wheat

I remember decimal day! And being taught at school how to u derstand the new system after growing up with the old imperial coins/ notes!
Comment from : bunny1

Bob Hope at 6:20 ha ha
Comment from : 9256steven

Can't imagine the transition to decimalisantion going as smoothly if it happened now
Comment from : Chris Arnold

don't google "Granny gets the point" it won't end the way you think it will
Comment from : __ HJG__

There's 100 of these in one of them That's all you need to know What's so hard???
Comment from : John Miller

The Brits collectively lost their identity over the new money and the abolishment of the imperial system
Comment from : Adam Abele

Fact: 1971 is not a day
Comment from : lemmingscanfly5

Yesliving in a base 12 system is so horrible Based on that logic, I suppose you should avoid clocks all together!
Comment from : DeepMind

Some people cashed in on the change for example Echo margarine used to be 8½d for a half pound before decimalisation and within 6 months of the changeover it was 8½p
Comment from : Alejandra y Alan Bowman

How can someone not understand decimal money? Could they not count to 10?
Comment from : Roger Szmodis

Why did it take them so long?
Comment from : QuarioQuario54321

Hmmmm a interesting video on my recommendations
Comment from : Naifrexz

Maybe this has to happen to miles, yards and whatever nonsense you have for measurements
Comment from : Swatdennis

As soon as decimalisation happened all prices rose dramatically
Comment from : Claude Bylion

543 fortysevenandahalfpeee OR nineandsix 8 syllables vs 3 I rest my case
Comment from : bluedick321

Im surprised that this isn’t a national holiday or treated as such considering the pure absurdity the old currency use to bring
Comment from : Hades Dogs

Decimal currency is so boring and honestly i wouldnt care if we go back for some reason
Comment from : Tesco

Now they won't really need to show people what it means as we go into Digitalization cos it will be worth the same, this time next year we'll all be paying with just our Debit Cards or Phones in The UK by the sounds of it what Chancelor Rishi is saying the Scan & Go back in stores, the Decimal System using Physical Cash didn't last too long like 50 years, soon as the Decimal System arrived things were only gonna get more simplified from there on out brbrI can't imagine what could be next though or how they could simplify it even more but i defo don't want to implant anything cos we need 2 ways to pay for things the Phone and Debit Card unless they manage to work something out where we only need to use 1 way for everything again brbrIt's not going to be big single changes though where everyone changes over all at once after lie 50 - 100 years like it always has been but instead Businesses will always be changing to keep up with Technology cos it's evolving so quickly now so we'll all likely just have to keep changing with it but they'll do it in smaller changes as they go instead so we'll probs not want to get used to how we Pay for goods brbrI don't know how it could get better than Debit Cards though there's just nothing easier and can be used everywhere but whenever Currencies change it has to be open to everyone and make sure to not cause problems for the poorer class especially, so i've no idea what could be used next, they'll still have to teach numbers in The Decimal System though of course
Comment from : FlyingMonkies325

Your areas of interest are expanding beyond car related subject matter Perhaps you should launch a separate channel on historical topicsI enjoy your presentations and your delivery Keep up the good work
Comment from : Robert Valadez

This is literally the Wikipedia article verbatim I was just reading it yesterday
Comment from : Geoff from BC

How old were you on Decimal Day? Were you old enough where this has a personal impact?
Comment from : tihi

I never understood the old system, there were just too many denominations Even bob and quid can be confusing for a non-Brit
Comment from : Moral Jackson

I have 1971 new pence 2 from Philippines
Comment from : RISALINA MORAL

Thank you My parents often expressed values in old money and I had no idea what they were talking about It was very confusing
Comment from : MrBeastiality -

At the time I was a kid who used to get sweets from the penny tray in the local shop Before decimalisation, 1 pound would buy 240 sweets after decimalisation it changed to a halfpenny tray 05p for a while and 1 pound bought 200 sweets it wasn't long before it returned to being the penny tray and only 100 sweets
Comment from : Bullet Proof

This is even more confusing than when Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road
Comment from : MOTO MINING

I remember it as the day the price of goods in shops went up
Comment from : IN THIS DAY AND AGE

Yeah and I don’t know how to compute the old system I tried many times and I failed brI don’t know how to put in figures if I do have 3 half crowns and 22 florins and 12 shillings
Comment from : Hyunjin Lee

I was in secondary (high school) when it happened Wilson started the ball rolling after he devalued the pound in '67 It also suited Heath and his traitors in the drive to join the EEC
Comment from : David Peters

(knock knock knock) "Penny" (knock knock knock) "Penny! (knock knock knock) 'Penny!"
Comment from : Hank Hicks

In 1971 Nixon took the US DOLLAR off the gold standard which all other currencies were pegged to This was when they 1st started printing it into worthlessness My theory is decimal day was a shell game so people didn't see their money being inflated away
Comment from : Drew Peacock

Four Black Jacks or Fruit Salads for an old penny no longer possible Outrage
Comment from : Musa Bloom

I feel like they could’ve kept the shilling at 10p in value
Comment from : Ya Boi

Yawn since was in my early 20's What a rip-off of general public Legally allowed to round up Lead to gouging, Big time!
Comment from : James Allen

Our school ice cream van man was so confused, he was giving more new pence back than he received in old currencybrOf course we quickly pointed this out to him, yeh right!
Comment from : NEIL DUTTON

Australia went that way in 1965
Comment from : Angloaust

My granny used to ask me; 'what's this in real money?' when she got 26p change
Comment from : Glenn F

It was open season on gouging nobody interested if you complained sigh tut! Everything went UP and a few things, actually went down, briefly before catching up with rest of market place The "Grocer" had a fine time of it
Comment from : James Allen

I remember Decimal Day very well My eldest daughter was born on that day so I have a permanent reminder of the date - good for quizzes!
Comment from : Stephen Dorrington

S ms s
Comment from : Sarah Bilton

1:32 "When I said Akeem had his own money, I meant he has his bown/b bmoney/b !"brIt's true This note was the model for the Bank of Zamunda £100 note in Coming To America
Comment from : PopeLando

50 years ago today! Not much fanfare to mark the occasion
Comment from : PopeLando