A Question For My Mates "Across the Pond."

[pjbear05]

What are your opinions-good, bad, or otherwise-about the Royal Mint's new 12 sided £1 coin?

[zepphead]

The 12 sided £1 coin has been with us since 2017.

 

TBH I have no issues with the 12 sided coin v the older plain sided design. They are pretty much the same shape and weight ... my problem is that I never have enough of them lol!!

 

The biggest issue I have with UK currency is the implementation of the dreaded 'plastic' notes to replace all the paper ones. They are plain nasty!

Edited February 3, 2021 by zepphead

[RushFanForever]

Chris Squire kept going on about 'musical notes' and 'ten bob notes' in this past interview below.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-lBnTc3So

 

The history of the ‘Ten Bob’ note – a world before the 50p coin…

Edited February 3, 2021 by RushFanForever

[zepphead]

Chris Squire kept going on about 'musical notes' and 'ten bob notes' in this past interview below.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-lBnTc3So

 

The history of the ‘Ten Bob’ note – a world before the 50p coin…

Ah! The 10 bob note ! .... also known as half a nicker.

[goose]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

Edited February 3, 2021 by goose

[Nova Carmina]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Thank god for monetary metric systems!

[zepphead]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

Indeed!! Why we complicated things with a decimal system is beyond me!! :LMAO:

[zepphead]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Thank god for monetary metric systems!

New fangled nonsense! :codger:

[IbanezJem]

I don`t use cash, as opposed to a card, to pay for things. They tell me that many shops and merchants decline it during the pandemic (illegally), so it`s sped up our progress to becoming a cashless society. I had £15 in cash, a fancy new plastic £5 and a £10, in November 2019. I spent it when I got my haircut in December 2020. I haven`t carried cash in large amounts since my days of regularly visiting the Casino!

[treeduck]

I only trade in bearskins these days so I haven't seen one. :moon:

[goose]

I don`t use cash, as opposed to a card, to pay for things. They tell me that many shops and merchants decline it during the pandemic (illegally),...

Interesting that it is illegal to refuse cash. That is not the case in the US.

[IbanezJem]

I don`t use cash, as opposed to a card, to pay for things. They tell me that many shops and merchants decline it during the pandemic (illegally),...

Interesting that it is illegal to refuse cash. That is not the case in the US.

Of course, never rule our the possibility that I may have slightly heavy-handedly used the word "illegally" - in as much as a shopkeeper can accept magic beans or ten minutes in the alleyway as payment, there is no specific stipulation - probably based on the principle relating to the rule of tort/invitation to treat - that money in any format has to be used at all :scared:

 

It is illegal if it can be asserted that there was discrimination afoot in declining cash. I wonder if someone spluttering germs all over a crisp roll of notes would count?

Edited February 3, 2021 by IbanezJem

[pjbear05]

Ah, silly me, those dolts on FB made it appear the coin was something the Royal Mint just came out with, DOH!

420 pence in a guinea, has it anything to do with weed? (lol)

And what's with the use of "quid" for a pound? Thanks m8's!

[zepphead]

Ah, silly me, those dolts on FB made it appear the coin was something the Royal Mint just came out with, DOH!

420 pence in a guinea, has it anything to do with weed? (lol)

And what's with the use of "quid" for a pound? Thanks m8's!

Quid Pro Quo ...... something for something. One of a few suggested derivations. Edited February 3, 2021 by zepphead

[IbanezJem]

Ah, silly me, those dolts on FB made it appear the coin was something the Royal Mint just came out with, DOH!

420 pence in a guinea, has it anything to do with weed? (lol)

And what's with the use of "quid" for a pound? Thanks m8's!

Quid Pro Quo ...... something for something. One of a few suggested derivations.

You can`t get something for nothing :musicnote:

[zepphead]

Ah, silly me, those dolts on FB made it appear the coin was something the Royal Mint just came out with, DOH!

420 pence in a guinea, has it anything to do with weed? (lol)

And what's with the use of "quid" for a pound? Thanks m8's!

Quid Pro Quo ...... something for something. One of a few suggested derivations.

You can`t get something for nothing :musicnote:

[driventotheedge]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Careful my man, you live in a country that uses 12 inches for a foot, 3 feet for a yard, etc. Metric system makes far more sense.....

[zepphead]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Careful my man, you live in a country that uses 12 inches for a foot, 3 feet for a yard, etc. Metric system makes far more sense.....

Not to mention 22 yards in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong and 8 furlongs in a mile!!! ...... ya gotta love them!!

[goose]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Careful my man, you live in a country that uses 12 inches for a foot, 3 feet for a yard, etc. Metric system makes far more sense.....

That we didn't switch in the 70s is a travesty. As a teacher, I can attest to the class time wasted teaching the English system, then teaching metric conversion. What a waste of energy.

[driventotheedge]

Let me get this straight...a "bob" is a shilling. Ten shillings is half a pound, so, a pound is twenty shillings. In turn, a shilling is twelve pence. A crown is five shillings, or sixty pence, while a guinea is twenty-one shillings, or one pound and one shilling (or four-hundred twenty pence).

 

Seems simple enough.

 

:P

 

Careful my man, you live in a country that uses 12 inches for a foot, 3 feet for a yard, etc. Metric system makes far more sense.....

That we didn't switch in the 70s is a travesty. As a teacher, I can attest to the class time wasted teaching the English system, then teaching metric conversion. What a waste of energy.

Agree that it should've been done in the 70s.

[Tony R]

I don`t use cash, as opposed to a card, to pay for things. They tell me that many shops and merchants decline it during the pandemic (illegally),...

Interesting that it is illegal to refuse cash. That is not the case in the US.

It’s not illegal to refuse cash for goods. Only to pay debts, hence the phrase “legal tender”.

[IbanezJem]

I don`t use cash, as opposed to a card, to pay for things. They tell me that many shops and merchants decline it during the pandemic (illegally),...

Interesting that it is illegal to refuse cash. That is not the case in the US.

It’s not illegal to refuse cash for goods. Only to pay debts, hence the phrase “legal tender”.

I tried to clarify in a different post, but I don`t think I did it very clearly - lockdown has fried my feeble brain.

[Weakly Criminal]

What are your opinions-good, bad, or otherwise-about the Royal Mint's new 12 sided £1 coin?

 

Sounds a bit like the Susan B Anthony coin that had the multi-faceted design but was still round. Vending machines have to hate a true 12 sided coin.

[pjbear05]

What are your opinions-good, bad, or otherwise-about the Royal Mint's new 12 sided £1 coin?

 

Sounds a bit like the Susan B Anthony coin that had the multi-faceted design but was still round. Vending machines have to hate a true 12 sided coin.

Same for change consolidation service machines like Coinstar. Lots of interesting coinage in the reject tray. Most of it from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Canada. Strangest of the lot was a 5 groszy coin from Poland.