No wonder we used to get holes in our trouser pockets

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  1. ime

    imer red Well-Known Member

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    EA58037F-6DAA-440D-B84B-A760155AC4FE.jpeg All that lot equivalent to one 50p today
     
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    I was born in the late 60s, so have no idea what you're talking about lol :)
     
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    Decimal day 15/2/71 50 years tomorrow
     
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    I know, I was only 3 at the time! :D:D
     
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    50p is ten bob in old money. That’s ten shillings or 120 pennies. Old pennies and old tuppences in that photo amount to a lot of copper.

    Get it now?
     
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    Photo shows 8 shilling in pennies 2 shilling in threepenny bits
     
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    I’ll take.a guess that you were born in 67?
     
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    Remember getting my first new pence from Hill's Store (Huddersfield Road), on way back from school at Wilthorpe with me Mum.
     
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    But wouldn’t you be able to buy a car with that?
     
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    The day I turned 25.
    Too late to change for me. I still think in L.S.D.
     
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    How did you work that out mate? :D:D:D
     
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    It’s just a gift I’ve got :D
     
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    you are definitely gifted mate :D:D:D
     
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    Don’t be daft.... You'd get a 3 bed semi !
     
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    Yer just a bairn
     
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    I grew up around 1988. So do I :)
     
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    I am, just a babby :)
     
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    imer red Well-Known Member

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    051BDB3F-2AEA-464C-80E0-B51A82620698.jpeg You will remember these then.
     
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    I am 150 years old! :)
    Sure I’ve got some of those actually in an old pot, keep meaning to check the value but I’ve a feeling it’s probably not very much
     
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    L.S.D. - is that the er mind altering drug of the 60s/70s?
     
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