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Post by Belinda on Jul 22, 2006 6:33:22 GMT
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Post by roger on Jul 22, 2006 11:16:29 GMT
Hi Belinda, Search the house for those old coins! I still haven't got used to decimal currency and that was introduced in 1971! Bring back pounds, shillings and pence, I say!  Roger |
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Post by Richard on Jul 22, 2006 13:45:08 GMT
Hello Belinda and Roger!  I've got a piggy-bank full of groats.  Should I spend them soon?  Richard  |
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Post by scoobedoo on Jul 23, 2006 9:24:18 GMT
Hi Belinda, Search the house for those old coins! I still haven't got used to decimal currency and that was introduced in 1971! Bring back pounds, shillings and pence, I say! Roger Roger!!!!! you've got to be joking  .......................surely  Rodders |
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Post by roger on Jul 23, 2006 11:24:49 GMT
Hi Rodders, Well yes and no. Certainly metric calculation is easier but our old coinage had real character, unlike this Toytown stuff we have now! The half crown - now that was a coin to be grappled with. Put a couple of them in your pocket and you knew you had 'em! I guess I'm just showing my age (I was 16 on decimalisation day).  Roger |
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Post by scoobedoo on Jul 23, 2006 11:49:57 GMT
Hi Roger, I could never understand why Britain went to pounds and pence instead of dollars & cents as we did.NZ used to have pound shillings &pence i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif When DC day came a completely new coinage was introduced and they scraped the LSD as it was known By the way I was 23 when our coinage was changed on July 10th 1967. Were you still at school during your changeover or had you finished? i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifI am showing my age now Keep cool, Rodders |
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Post by Dave on Jul 23, 2006 12:23:41 GMT
Hi Roger, I could never understand why Britain went to pounds and pence instead of dollars & cents as we did.NZ used to have pound shillings &pence i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif When DC day came a completely new coinage was introduced and they scraped the LSD as it was known Rodders Hi Rodders, The answer to that question is easy... the public would never have accepted anything else! It was a hard fought battle for the government to persuade the public to accept decimal coinage anyway so why make it an even harder fight by adopting "foreign" coinage names... whether that be dollars and cents, francs and centimes, or whatever. In my younger days  we were an independent minded lot over here you know - and we still are! Look how so far, the government hasn't dared to introduce the Euro in the UK, they use "economic reasons" as an excuse but the real reason is that it is taking many many years to persuade the public to accept it. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifThey daren't even suggest that we should conform in certain other ways, cars are still driven on the left for example. Don't you drive on the left in NZ too?  Oh look, that's got us exactly back on topic with another NZ "did you know" Cheers, Dave |
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Post by roger on Jul 23, 2006 12:26:07 GMT
Hi Rodders, Yes, I was still at school. I remember going into a local tuck shop on the way home on Decimalisation Day. I couldn't believe how cheap a quarter of a pound of American hard gums were! It didn't occur to me that, in old money, it represented 2.4 times the amount stated! We live and learn! Roger |
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Post by thomas on Jul 23, 2006 21:10:53 GMT
Hi ! I still have some of the "old" NZ coins at home. Although I haven't been there so far my cousin gave me some when he visited New Zealand. Unfortuneately for him it was only a business trip so he didn't have the chance to see much of the country. But I go to New Zealand with my sister at the end of February next year for about 4 weeks. So I can also collect some of the new coins. It's good if you keep some of the old money as a memory of old times. I still have some Deutsch Mark at home that I will NEVER!!!! change to Euro. Thomas  |
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Post by roger on Jul 23, 2006 21:23:22 GMT
Hi Thomas, It's good if you keep some of the old money as a memory of old times. I still have some Deutsch Mark at home that I will NEVER!!!! change to Euro. Thomas Somewhere in the back of a cupboard is a small box containing all the British pre-decimal coins: ¼d (farthing) ½d (halfpenny) 1d (penny) 3d (threepenny bit or threepenny jenny) 6d (sixpence or tanner) 1/- (shilling or bob) 2/- (two shillings or florin) 2/6 (two and six or half crown) That's six shillings, four and three-quarter pence in total. Huh, that was about two weeks' pocket money! Roger |
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Post by Belinda on Jul 23, 2006 23:03:46 GMT
Hi Rodders,Roger and Thomas,
I too have a collection of coins some i collected in Britain and round Europe in the 80's,
Also i have some penny's and half penny's,
some i can tell are definitely NZ ones,
some i think are British
roger what was on the front of the British ones,Both have the Queen on the back.
I think our coins were minted in Britain anyway.
Thomas what part of New Zealand are you and your sister going too.
Heres some info re our Government
Did you know
chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Dame Silvia CARTWRIGHT (since 4 April 2001)
head of government: Prime Minister Helen CLARK (since 10 December 1999) and Deputy Prime Minister Michael CULLEN (since NA July 2002)
cabinet: Executive Council appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister
elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of a majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the governor general; deputy prime minister appointed by the governor general
Belinda
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Post by Richard on Jul 24, 2006 7:48:50 GMT
That's six shillings, four and three-quarter pence in total. That's a whisker under 32p in new money, or about 89.5 NZ cents at an exchange rate of 2.8 dollars to the pound! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifRichard |
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 8:33:47 GMT
Hi Rodders, Yes, I was still at school. I remember going into a local tuck shop on the way home on Decimalisation Day. I couldn't believe how cheap a quarter of a pound of American hard gums were! It didn't occur to me that, in old money, it represented 2.4 times the amount stated! We live and learn! Roger Oh Golly gosh Roger. A tuck shop. Does that term evoke a cascade of memories? When time seemed without end. When staff were not inhinbited by regulatory standardisation but were simply allowed to be themselves, full of extraordinary eccentricities but redoubtable in strength of character. Such as sitting in the pub garden next to the school, actually an oddity of ownership that was 'within' the school, waving cheerily with a raised pint as the boys passed to and fro. Or one Spud (same guy) so nicknamed because he really did look like a double potato, standing in the middle of the junior school playground and yelling 'Spud needs a push!', when a bevy of small boys would rush to his Standard 10 to get the car going for him. A series of minor explosions would follow as the car began to gather momentum and Spud periodically slipped the clutch until, with a flurry of hand-waving through the window he would disappear in a haze of blue smoke and a 'thank you boys'. Or Puffer, so named because he rode his bike smoking a pipe with a small acorn-like bowl out of one side of his mouth and as his left foot came down on the peddle, so a small puff of blue smoke would emerge from the pipe. Then, dear old Sammy. A science teacher who, much to the irritation of the chaplain whose previous experience in a boys' borstal was thought to stand him in good stead for teaching in a public school, purportedly claimed God could not be proved scientifically and so did not exist. Nonetheless, in his last years before retiring Sammy took the cloth and became a vicar. 'A conversion of faith, sir?' 'Good Lord, no my boy, practicality. Its the one job I can do for which I can draw a salary while also claiming my pension!' He was renowned for throwing Scout clasp knives at you if he was upset, well, not exactly at you as close to you. I remember one after-noon being more than usually dense when he was standing behind me and demanding I point out where Adelaide was. I was singularly obtuse and could not find it, staring at the Atlas nonplussed. Then, in a somewhat wearied voice he announced to the rest of the class, 'I suppose we should all be grateful you are at least looking at Australia. Unlike Tomkins, who a moment ago was trying to find it in Newfoundland, weren't you Tomkins?' 'Oh no sir, I was just passing through on my way to Australia.' A snort, indicated Sammy didn't believe a word and then, 'It's there, you fool boy!' Sammy's clasp knife came whizzing over my shoulder landing in my atlas, burying itself through the rest of the atlas into the desk where it anchored itself, vibrating violently for a few seconds between my first and second fingers but slap-bang through the centre of Adelaide. 'You won't forget where Adelaide is now, will you, boy?' 'Oh no sir, not at ail!' I never have. It's somewhere in Australia I believe! Peter |
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 8:40:43 GMT
Hi Thomas, It's good if you keep some of the old money as a memory of old times. I still have some Deutsch Mark at home that I will NEVER!!!! change to Euro. Thomas Somewhere in the back of a cupboard is a small box containing all the British pre-decimal coins: ¼d (farthing) ½d (halfpenny) 1d (penny) 3d (threepenny bit or threepenny jenny) 6d (sixpence or tanner) 1/- (shilling or bob) 2/- (two shillings or florin) 2/6 (two and six or half crown) That's six shillings, four and three-quarter pence in total. Huh, that was about two weeks' pocket money! Roger A very useful record, Roger. Than k you. Peter |
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 10:08:51 GMT
It was a hard fought battle for the government to persuade the public to accept decimal coinage anyway so why make it an even harder fight by adopting "foreign" coinage names... whether that be dollars and cents, francs and centimes, or whatever. In my younger days we were an independent minded lot over here you know - and we still are! Look how so far, the government hasn't dared to introduce the Euro in the UK, they use "economic reasons" as an excuse but the real reason is that it is taking many many years to persuade the public to accept it. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifThey daren't even suggest that we should conform in certain other ways, cars are still driven on the left for example. Don't you drive on the left in NZ too? Oh look, that's got us exactly back on topic with another NZ "https://i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifid you know" Cheers, Dave However, Dave, look at the hullabaloo over New Zealand butter. One, there is at least uproar over the latest EU stupidities... However, if I wax further on the subject I shall be off topic, my excuse to date being merely to respond to your own last post... However, as your post implies, Dave, some of us still know what we are doing and are prepared to stick our necks above the parapets and say so. Peter ... = snips by Dave |
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we were an independent minded lot over here you know - and we still are! Look how so far, the government hasn't dared to introduce the Euro in the UK, they use "economic reasons" as an excuse but the real reason is that it is taking many many years to persuade the public to accept it. 
Oh look, that's got us exactly back on topic with another NZ "did you know"
