A UK sandwich shop 1971

@Justenjoyit whats the p?

@TryingtoLava P for pence

@Justenjoyit Inflation in the UK since 1971 - prices approximately twenty times what they are now. You could get a car for well under £1,000 🚗

@Justenjoyit Twelve pence per shilling; 20 shillings per pound!
Not to mention tuppence, thruppence, sixpence, half crown (worth 2.5 shillings), ha'penny and farthing!!

@ElwoodBlues I can remember some odd quirks with the changeover. The 5p and 10p coins came in a few years early, because they had exact equivalents under the old system. They were followed by the 50p, which had a direct equivalent in the ten shilling note, which it replaced. The 'coppers' (made of steel in more recent decades) had to wait until 15th Feb. 1971, when the outgoing coins without equivalents in the new system (half-penny, one-penny, three-penny) ceased to be legal tender. The 'half-crown', though it had an exact equivalent value of 12.5 new pence, had been withdrawn in 1970, while the farthing - which I don't remember at all - had gone in 1960.

And the sixpence? The 'tanner' was well-liked, convenient and had an exact equivalent value of 2.5p. and continued for a few years after 1971. But by the middle of the decade it, too, had disappeared.

@supersnipe Several years ago I was in london with my middle-school son, and he wanted for some reason to see the flea markets (that's what we call them) on Portobello Rd. And they had farthings for sale! Before that, mostly what I knew was a kind of bicycle called a "penny farthing."

@ElwoodBlues i vaguely remember the old currency before we became decimalised i971 but some of the coins look familiar