Re:Pre-decimal currency (was: Absent posters (Trivia)

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Posted by Alan Hakim on June 25, 2009 at 09:52:16 user awhakim.

In Reply to: Re: Absent posters (Trivia) posted by Dave Thewlis on June 25, 2009 at 04:04:36:

Going back to Cambridge in the mid-1950s, I recall the price of a loaf of bread went up from 4¼d (fourpence-farthing) to 4½d (fourpence-ha'penny). I don't remember when I last used a farthing in a shop, but halfpennies went on right up to the conversion to decimal in 1971.

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