Peter Beale wrote:
®i©ardo wrote:

It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for decimalisation
in 1971, and there was a transition period allowing dual use of silver
coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and
the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970 that the 10/- note was withdrawn from
circulation.

More he

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html

As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly at
the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as an
integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had a 10/-
dollar would have been more sensible. But then I was happy with £sd!

Peter Beale



And they also had the ½p, of course!

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Graeme Wall wrote:
In message
Peter Beale wrote:

®i©ardo wrote:

It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for decimalisation
in 1971, and there was a transition period allowing dual use of silver
coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and
the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970 that the 10/- note was withdrawn from
circulation.

More he

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html
As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly at
the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as an
integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had a 10/-
dollar would have been more sensible.

But would have had all the Little Englanders up in arms at the loss of the
Thousand Year Reich^^^^ Thousand Years of History�

At least they have a history - and why just select the "Little
Englanders"? There's quite a few militants about nothing in the other
constituent parts of the UK!

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In message
®i©ardo wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message
Peter Beale wrote:

®i©ardo wrote:

It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for decimalisation
in 1971, and there was a transition period allowing dual use of silver
coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and
the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970 that the 10/- note was withdrawn from
circulation.

More he

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html
As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly at
the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as an
integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had a 10/-
dollar would have been more sensible.

But would have had all the Little Englanders up in arms at the loss of the
Thousand Year Reich^^^^ Thousand Years of History�

At least they have a history - and why just select the "Little
Englanders"? There's quite a few militants about nothing in the other
constituent parts of the UK!


wooosh!

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:35:07 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:


Today, many of the better banks have "intelligent" systems that try to
spot detect fraud based on usage patterns. If you rarely traveled out
of your city/country or made large purchases, they might flag such
transactions at the time of sale and either deny them, require the
merchant call them, or even now call the customer's cell phone to
verify.

My bank definitely does this - last year just before a trip to Germany I
bought a whole pile of advance purchase DB tickets on-line. A few days
later I got a phone call from my bank asking about a number of
transactions from Germany. The operator said she had noted down against
my account that I was about to travel to Europe after I explained why I
was buying DB tickets with my card.

®i©ardo wrote:

It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for decimalisation
in 1971, and there was a transition period allowing dual use of silver
coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and
the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970 that the 10/- note was withdrawn from
circulation.

More he

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html

As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly at
the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as an
integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had a 10/-
dollar would have been more sensible. But then I was happy with £sd!

Peter Beale


Which was the decision made by South Africa, Australia, and New
Zealan... and I guess a few others within their orbits of monetary
influence... as I mentioned before.

Ten bob became one dollar.

In article , (Peter
Beale) wrote:

®i©ardo wrote:

It was The Currency Act of 1967 which paved the way for
decimalisation in 1971, and there was a transition period
allowing dual use of silver coins, e.g. 1/- = 5p; 2/- = 10p, with
the loss of 2/6 (half-crown) and the 6d (tanner). It was in 1970
that the 10/- note was withdrawn from circulation.

More he

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec.html

As stated there, the 6d remained in use (as 2½p) until 1980, partly
at the behest of London Transport. IMO to have vulgar fractions as
an integral part of a decimal system was always silly - to have had
a 10/- dollar would have been more sensible. But then I was happy
with £sd!

The Spanish and Portuguese didn't seem to have a problem with 2½ unit
coins until they adopted the Euro. The seemed to positively prefer
coinage going 1, 2½, 5, 10 to our 1, 2, 5, 10.

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"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
l.co.uk...

The Spanish and Portuguese didn't seem to have a problem with 2½ unit
coins until they adopted the Euro. The seemed to positively prefer
coinage going 1, 2½, 5, 10 to our 1, 2, 5, 10.

The Dutch had a 2 1/2 guilder coin.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:08:40 GMT, Dik T. Winter wrote:
In writes:
[Someone:]
The question to Rian (who anyway is in Belgium)
should be "Wouldn't it have been easier to pay with a debit card?" (rather
than withdrawing unusual amounts of cash from his bank).

Agreed.

At least in the Netherlands there is a maximum amount that can be payed with
a debit card. And that maximum is independent of the saldo on your account.
When I bought a computer quite some time ago (and, no, it was not a cheap
one), the total amount exceeded this maximum (DFL 2000 at that time), so I
had to pay the remainder by credit card.

I think it was something like NLG 750 for a while.

There are limits on my debit and credit cards indeed. The limit on my
credit card can probably be raised, but I never bothered for just one
payment/year. In previous years, I payed with a mix of cash, debit and
credit cards. But because I needed some cash anyway, I decided this year
to pay it all in cash. There's an office of my bank just a few steps
from where I work, so that's convenient anyway (certainly more
convenient than going to an ATM multiple times on different days). Until
recently, there was also one opposite the railway station (that would
very much limit the time I'd have to carry the cash around), but that's
gone.

Regards,

Rian

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:36:05 +0100, wrote:
"Rian van der Borgt" wrote:
I notice that in Amsterdam, GVB does not accept 50-euro notes.

Not even when you buy ticket(s) for that amount or more?

I'm not sure, though I saw on trams an image of a 50-euro note that had been
crossed out.

My guess is that they are not expexting you to stump up that much cash for
tickets in one go -- at least not on trams.

Ah, that explains it. I was thinking about the GVB office in front of
the central station.
Here in Belgium, bus/tram drivers are also very reluctant to eccept 50
euro notes, simply because they often don't have enough change for them.

Regards,

Rian

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On 27 Jun 2008 19:52:56 GMT, Rian van der Borgt
wrote:

Here in Belgium, bus/tram drivers are also very reluctant to eccept 50
euro notes, simply because they often don't have enough change for them.

Most buses in the UK do not accept GBP20 notes for the same reason.

Neil

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