Anyone here collecting the state quarters?

[monkey tennis]

I do have two sets of first issue coins from when Britain moved to decimalisation
in 1971...the year I was born.

I don't quite understand the coins of pre-decimalisation.

Coins like:

a farthing
a halfpenny (hay-p'ny)
three farthings

a half-groat (2d)
a threepenny bit
a groat
a two shilling piece
a half-crown
ten shillings (a half-sovereign)
a half-guinea



But I like their Names.

[Mikey]

I only know of 2 of them ........

I think Scrooge gave the turkey kid "a half a crown"

Also, the hay penny..

From an old nursery rhyme --- Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat

[monkey tennis]

There's a Ha' Penny bridge in Dublin.
I believe it used to cost that amount to cross.

http://www.irish-architecture.com/bu...halfpenny.html

[Adam West]

I wonder why the $2 bill has never caught on.

Even things priced at $.99 are usually $1 and change once you add tax to it.

[Mikey]

I don't think the 2 was ever ment to catch on.

It was just a '76 bicentennial promo for mostly collectors.