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unusual facts about decimal day


Cash register

Their cash registers were particularly popular around the time of decimalisation in Britain in early 1971, Henry having designed one of the few known models of cash register which could switch currencies from £sd to £p so that retailers could easily change from one to the other on or after Decimal Day.


Shilling

The common currency created in 1707 by Article 16 of the Articles of Union continued in use until decimalisation in 1971.


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