The move from the ancient system of £sd coinage to 100p to £1 was controversial, considered by some to be a sign of the UK's receding importance on the world stage and even as the beginning of the ...

15 February marks the 50th anniversary of the day when, after 150 years of proposals, debate and Royal Commissions, Britain finally adopted a decimal currency. The old system of 12 pennies to the ...

Britain’s experience with conversion to the decimal currency in 1971 has lessons for the introduction of euro notes and coins at the start of next year, writes the Financial Times. Noel Moore spent ...

The decimal system in numbers, coins, and accounts: especially with reference to the decimalisation of the currency and accountancy of the United Kingdom; illustrated with one hundred and twenty ...