Just realised that a florin was a decimal coin, worth one tenth of a pound.
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I'm old enough to remember all that Jon, just never occurred to me that it was decimal before deimalisation. I remember getting paid a half a crown as a five year old for taking part in a TV programme.
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It was introduced, I think in the 1860's, to kick start decimalisation. It took a hundred yrs and the death of the half-crown to achieve it. I still miss the half-crown !
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Perhaps the current govt might reintroduce it as a populist return to the good old days? :-)
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