What should be done with the 2.5% VAT reduction - Poll

[#1]

I preferred £sd.
The money in those days had a nice ring to their names; farthing (although I am too young to have actually spent it), ha'penny, tu'ppence, thru'ppence, sixpence (as opposed to six pence), shilling, 2 bob, 5 bob, half-crown,  crown, 10 bob, guinea - Things seemed cheaper, too lol
I think my favourite coin was the thru'penny bit - don't make 'em like that anymore.

[#2]

you forgot sovereign  http://www.royalmint.com/store/catalogue/themes/sovereignTheme.aspx

[#3]

I omitted the sovereign as it had (has) the same value as a pound
And let's not forget the florin.
Back then, 2/6 (two & six or two shillings and sixpence) seemed so much furrther away from a £ than 12.5p does today.
Funny thing, though, I still tend to say tu'pence, thru'pence, etc. wrong - but I like it

[#4]

in the seventies the Dutch also had a florin and it was the same size and I think value as ours

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Obsolete coins     * Italian coin florin, minted in Florence in 1252 (origin of the name "florin"), first gold coin minted after the Dark Ages in Western Europe; see also Bezant     * Dutch gulden, used in the Netherlands from 1279 to 2002     * Florin (English coin), a coin valued at six shillings, used only in 1344     * Austro-Hungarian gulden, used from 1754 to 1892     * South German gulden, used from 1754 to 1873     * British two shilling coin, produced from 1849 to 1970 with its denomination inscribed variously one florin, two shllings, or with both denominations.     * Florin (Australian coin), used from 1910 to 1966     * Irish florin coin, a two-shilling coin produced from 1928 to 1968     * Florin (New Zealand coin), minted from 1933 to 1965

[#5]

Quote from: Strat

Yeah...I used to weigh a respectable 12 stones now I weigh a massive 168 pounds

I seem to trecall you being quite tall Dick, in which case I don't think you have anything to be about!

[#6]

Quote from: Strat

@driveconsultants Come on, what's your problem, you'll only fritter it away on cold beer, women, fast cars and foreign holidays

Do you know me? 

[#7]

...as opposed to foreign beer, fast holidays, cold women and cars of the non starting variety

[#8]

Quote from: Mav

I preferred £sd.

Hmm £sd......yeah I remember that. Flower Power.....ahhhh those were the days

[#9]

Quote from: Mav

I preferred £sd. The money in those days had a nice ring to their names; farthing (although I am too young to have actually spent it), ha'penny, tu'ppence, thru'ppence, sixpence (as opposed to six pence), shilling, 2 bob, 5 bob, half-crown,  crown, 10 bob, guinea - Things seemed cheaper, too lol

Quote from: Mav

I omitted the sovereign as it had (has) the same value as a pound

Sorry to be pedantic (and I know I'm a bit late), but 2/6 is the same as half a crown, and 5 bob was the same as a crown 
I'm old enough to have just learned to multiply £sd as it went out.  There's no way that could be done at GCSE!! Multiply the pennies, divide by 12, put down the remainder ............ 
John

[#10]

Oh now I get it. Sorry I was thinking of a different £sd
You know what they say....'if you remember the sixties you weren't there'

[#11]

Quote from: hulls

Sorry to be pedantic (and I know I'm a bit late), but 2/6 is the same as half a crown, and 5 bob was the same as a crown

I know Just wanted to point out the many ways we could say the same value. Today 25p is just that - boring 25p
Regards