10 July 1967.

[DougB]

Back in 1966 I lost a bet for five pounds. I left the area before the question we bet on was decided. Last year I met the bet winner again. Who loudly exclamed (with a big smile on his face) "I want my five pounds!!"

I took out my wallet to obligue "Na not that crap money the bet was for five pounds".

I went to a coin collector and the cheapest five pound note cost me $22. He recieved the note gracefully and I was forgiven.

[Big Dave]

Bunch of old farts :-)

PS: If you want to relive the hideous imperial system you can always move to yankland.

Ohh no - Metric is much nicer to live with.

[Big Dave]

Yes Merv - you got it - they used to make us sing that at primary school too - how embarassment.

[What?]

Aaah, Decimal Day.

Imagine a five-year-old, 3 months into learning some basic maths, being told that 1 penny is equal to 2 cents, and 6 pence is equal to 5 cents. No fuggin wonder we can subtract 1967 from 2006 and come up with 40!

[Oscar]

40 years ago we changed to decimal currency - from the ten bob note to the dollar note,from a quid to a 2 dollar note,from a bob to 10 cents,from half a crown to fifty cents...from the huge penny to the tiny one cent piece.

How many of you learned to work out change in pounds shillings and pence - then threw it all out the window and moved to the ''new'' money?

I was a flash bastid with decimal currency at school.
Australia did the change over in 1966 when I started school in Sydney, so when we moved here in 1967, I was the Primer 4 expert...