> So your Dollar was half the value of your former Pound?  I think we 
> may have learned from your mistake when we decimalised in 1971 - we 
> kept the
> pound the same and just changed the pence, to "New Pence", 
> appreviated "p" instead of the former "d" (from the Roman "dinari").

I didn't / don't see that as a mistake and admit thinking that the UK 
"new pence" system was cumbersome and liable to confuse and also to 
inflate prices.
It was probably necessary however to maintain the existence of the GBP 
as it had such pomp and antiquity to it.

The change from 12p to 10c to the shilling and 10 shillings to the 
dollar made sense and was smoothly accomplished

Coins were    1 2 5 10 20 50 100 200 c
Notes            1 2 5 10 20 50 100 $

Now
Coins            10 20 50 100 200 c
Notes            5 10 20 50 100 $

We also used d for pence.
In fact currency used to be LSD which had nothing to do with "Lucy in 
the Sky with Diamonds" - which allegedly had nothing to do with drugs 
but with a picture that one of their children brought home from 
school.

'That's nice dear. What is it?"
"That's Lucy in the Sky with DIAMONDS!!!"
Ah !!!



Hookey Walker !!!




        Russell


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