@kibcol1049@mstdn.social @John_Loader@ohai.social @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @SteveClough@metalhead.club @alexf24@mstdn.social @nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot I was just a couple of years old on Decimal Day so had no concept of money. But the Royal Mint deliberately chose to make the new 5p and 10p coins the same size and weight as the old 1 shilling and 2 shilling coins, so growing up I'd look at my pocket money and find coins with dates from way back earlier in the 20th century. In theory even Victorian coins were still usable, although very few of those actually still circulated. Those old 1 or 2 bob bits remained valid until a major rehaul of all coinage happened in (iirc) the mid-to-late 1980s.