were issued for the first time. Decimalisation occurred in: The colonial elite, the main advocates of decimalisation, based their case on two main arguments:...

1971 (BBC News, On this Day, 1 March 1966) Decimalisation (Royal Mint) The History Files: Decimalisation in the UK. Musical satirist Tom Lehrer singing...

advocating the adoption of decimalisation of the currency, and Parliament returned to the matter in the 1850s. Various decimalisation schemes were considered...

historically with metrication Decimalisation of time units Decimalisation of the time of day via decimal time systems Decimalisation of the calendar via decimal...

Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence (minted on coins as new until 1981). Before decimalisation, twelve...

pence (10p) at decimalisation; the half-crown, two shillings and sixpence (2/6) or one-eighth of a pound, which was abolished at decimalisation (otherwise...

to decimalisation of two of the appointed commissioners, Lord Overstone (a banker) and John Hubbard (Governor of the Bank of England), decimalisation in...

03 to US$2.80, the Australian pound went from US$3.224 to US$2.24. Decimalisation had been proposed for Australian currency since 1902, when a select...

tennies. Decimalisation was considered but ultimately rejected by the Coinage Committee in 1933. However, future possibilities for decimalisation were kept...

attempt at dechristianization and decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication). It...