{"id":1258,"date":"2021-02-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:44:12","slug":"decimal-day-50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/02\/15\/decimal-day-50-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Decimal Day – 50 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On 15 February 1971, United Kingdom’s coinage evolved from the centuries-old system of pounds, shillings and pence\u00a0and went decimal. This enormous change to UK coinage called for one of the biggest publicity campaigns our nation had ever seen. Decimalisation took many years of careful planning and in order to achieve the monumental challenge of striking new coins, a new factory was required, along with new machinery, production techniques and processes.<\/p>\n

It was farewell to old pennies \"\"<\/p>\n

halfpennies \"\"<\/p>\n

farthings \"\"<\/p>\n

florins \"\"<\/p>\n

sixpences \"\"<\/p>\n

and dodecagonal threepenny bits \"\"<\/p>\n

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Decimal Day’, as it was known, the Royal Mint has just released a brand new 50p.<\/p>\n

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On 15 February 1971, United Kingdom’s coinage evolved from the centuries-old system of pounds, shillings and pence\u00a0and went decimal. This enormous change to UK coinage called for one of the biggest publicity campaigns our nation had ever seen. Decimalisation took many years of careful planning and in order to achieve the monumental challenge of striking … Continue reading “Decimal Day – 50 years ago today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}