Pre-Decimal pocket money

The Flick*r Alphabet Challenge this week was Y is for Yesteryear.
For those of you who do not recognise these because they did not receive pocket money before 1971 - all of these coins together total less than £1.  On decimalisation 240 pence (d) became 100 new pence (p).The smallest coin shown is the silver threepenny piece which was not minted after 1945 when it was replaced by the larger,12 sided, 'brass' threepenny piece. The smallest value is the farthing (a quarter of an old penny - so 960 to the £1) which was still minted during the early years of the present Queen's reign (withdrawn in 1961) but, like all the 'copper' and 'brass' coins stopped being legal tender after decimalisation in 1971. the 'silver' coins continued as they translated exactly into decimal values: the sixpence became 2.5p , the shilling 5p, the florin 10p and the half crown 12.5p (though the sixpence and half crown were not minted as decimal coins and were soon phased out). The 50p piece began to replace the ten shilling note on decimalisation,  but the one pound coin did not replace the pound note for some years after.

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