60 Years ago next week

[canetoad]

Australia adopted decimal currency. Remember this?

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[Sneederbunk]

1. The US has never been able to figure it out.

[Skittles]

2. I was in England when theirs changed

omg, the hand-wringing and angst - I remember telling my grandparents and their friends BASE TEN IS *GOOD*

[canetoad]

3. And now, I bet

No one would ever go back to the old system. I was 11 when the changeover happened and made a profit of 4c a day on bus fares for three of us to go to school due to conversion. I was laughing!

[Skittles]

4. heh

I had an autistic great-uncle....my grandma chided him for weeks about turning in any "old" cash - on the very day before the deadline he showed up with a big wad of cash he had saved in a shoebox, prompting grandma to absolutely lose it. I calmed her down by telling her a soliciter friend of hers could advise what to do (it all worked out fine)

[2naSalit]

5. Wow...

Just barely remember that. I think I only knew about it because my brother, two years older, was interested in it and I had to know everything he did so I saw that because of his interest. I would have been nine then.