Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[GaryMG4]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

 

[T1 Terry]

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

 

[MG Clive]

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

 

[T1 Terry]

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

That's some bladder, thankfully toilets are still plentiful and free in Aust ...... although, as a very young kid, maybe 4yrs old, I do remember my mother having to buy a ticket to take me into the toilets .... I guess that is where the term "a pennies worth of poo ticket" ..... or it referred to having to buy sheets of toilet paper .....
Dollar and cents were introduced in Aust on 14th Feb 1966, I can still remember the jingle from the advertising campaign .... I would have been 10 yrs old then .....
At school, they didn't teach us anything about how to do money sums in pounds, shillings and pence, they couldn't see the point in confusing us with the old system, only to have to forget it all when money went metric. The lowest denomination coin here is 5 cents, the lowest note, $5, $1 and $2 are coins, no longer notes, and they buy about as much as I remember 1 shilling and 2 shillings could buy

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

A pre-decimal ha'penny.