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	Modern Irish Coinage (1928 to date)
		The new decimal 5 pence and 10 pence coins were identical in size and of equivalent value to the previous coinage, these coins were introduced early, in 1969, and the older counterparts were not demonetised.
		The decimal bronze coins were issued in reasonable quantities in 1969 and 1970 in sets of decimal coins to familiarise the population with the new coins.
		The florin continued to circulate until the ten pence was reduced in size and the larger coins and the remaining old florins were withdrawn together in 1993.
	www.irishcoinage.com /MODCOIN.HTM (2885 words)

	British Twenty Pence coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British decimal twenty pence (20p) coin – often pronounced "twenty pee" – was issued in June 1982 to fill the obvious gap between the ten pence and fifty pence coins.
		The coin is minted from an alloy of 84% copper and 16% nickel (unlike the other 'silver' coins which are 75% copper, 25% nickel), weighs 5.00 grams and has a diameter of 21.4 millimetres.
		The coin also differs from other British coinage (bar the more recent £2 coin) in that the year of mintage is displayed on the reverse (the opposite side to the Queen's head).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_coin_Twenty_Pence (398 words)

	Fifty Pence Coins - A Brief History of the 50 Pence Coin
		Britannia Reverse of the 1969 Fifty New Pence
		Obverse of the 1973 Fifty New Pence Coin
		The last coins of the old £sd system to be issued for circulation were dated 1967, and the first decimal coins were 10 and 5 pence coins dated 1968, which were the direct equivalent of the florin and shilling.
	www.24carat.co.uk /fiftypencestory.html (835 words)

	Coin Summary
		Some coins have coin orientation, where the coin must be flipped vertically to see the other side; other coins, such as British coins, have medallic orientation, where the coin must be flipped horizontally to see the other side.
		Coins that are not round (British 50 pence for example) usually have an odd number of sides, with the edges rounded off.
		Coins are popularly used as a sort of two-sided die; in order to choose between two options with a random possibility, one choice will be labeled "heads" and the other "tails," and a coin will be flipped or "tossed" to see whether the heads or tails side comes up on top.
	www.bookrags.com /Coin (2045 words)

	The British Monetary System before Decimalization
		I responded by saying, “Don’t forget the British Monetary System before decimalization, which is the classic example of a complex mixed-radix counting system in constant, daily use for hundreds of years.” Naturally, she asked me to explain this monetary system, and when it was decimalized.
		Prior to that a pound was 20 shillings, a shilling twelve pence (pennies) and the smallest division of a penny was a farthing.
		The 5p and 10p coins were the same size as the old 1/- and 2/- coins, and no attempt was made to withdraw these old coins from circulation, to the confusion of the visitor.
	www.pauahtun.org /Calendar/money.html (1063 words)

	British coinage
		The English penny was derived from a small silver coin minted by Charlemagne which was in general circulation in Europe during the middle ages.
		The weight of this coin was originally1/240th of a troy pound, a weight known as a pennyweight[?] - around 1.555grams.
		produced by machine; the first milled coins were produced during the reign of Elizabeth I and periodically during the reigns of James I and Charles I, but there was opposition to mechanisation from the moneyers who ensured that most coins continued to be produced by hammering.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/British_coinage.html (910 words)

	Australian Decimal Currency
		The preparations for the introduction of a new coinage coincided with the approval by Queen Elizabeth for a new effigy to be used accompanied by a simplified inscription.
		Subsequent $200 coins have depicted the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, the Commonwealth Games in 1982, the embarkation of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787 (1987) and the landing by Captain Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove in 1788 (1988).
		The coins, to be produced at the Perth Mint, were given the name the Australian Nugget and were first released in 1986.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/aust/decimal.htm (5917 words)

	English Coins - Discussion
		The coin was reintroduced as the milled gold sovereign by George III in 1817 and continues to be minted as a proof coin.
		For centuries it was the only coin struck in the realm with some 70 different mints producing the coin during the rule of William the Conqueror (1066-1087).
		This coin continued to be struck until 1967, with a proof coin struck in 1970 as part of the final issue of old style denominations.
	www.coins.nd.edu /ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/BritishDenominations3.html (2168 words)

	British Coins before the Florin, Compared to French Coins of the Ancient Regime
		Twenty shillings would also equal a Troy pound, which as a unit of account is then the "Pound Sterling," based as the coins were on Sterling silver, 92.5% (37/40) pure.
		Silver coins would simply become tokens for their face value in gold, regardless of the intrinsic value of silver (so long as this was less than the face value!).
		The modern British 5p coin, which is the decimal descendant of the shilling, thus may be said to be the last link to Roman coinage, although, as the solidus, it only existed on paper for the many centuries of the silver penny.
	www.friesian.com /coins.htm (7159 words)

	British coin Fifty Pence - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The British decimal fifty pence (50p) coin was issued in October 1969 in the run-up to decimalisation to replace the ten shilling note.
		The coin is minted from an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
		During the history of the coin, three different obverses have been used so far - between 1969 and 1984 the head of Queen Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin was used, between 1985 and 1997 the head by Raphael Maklouf was used, and since 1998 one by Ian Rank-Broadley has been used.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=199913 (615 words)

	British Coin decimalisation
		Unlike the earlier coins, all of which were made from nickel-brass, the new coins were bimetallic with a central cupro-nickel inner disc bonded to an outer brass ring.
		By 1990, a combination of inflation and the realisation that the cupro-nickel coins were unnecessarily large, led to the five pence coin being reduced in weight and size, from 24mm diameter to 18mm.
		The ten pence coin followed in 1992, reduced down to a size similar to the old five pence but, to prevent fraudulent use of old five pence coins, particularly in cash machines, it was made slightly larger and heavier.
	www.predecimal.com /p11decimalisation.htm (1228 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - British Money Home Page
		The coin is considered to be part of British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the contemporary Third Farthing.
		The coin was not minted in the new classification and was withdrawn from circulation in 1980.
		The coin is considered to be part of British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the contemporary Quarter Farthing.
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /British_Money.html (2759 words)

	The Salacious Historian's 17th c. History
		In the British system, there are so many different denominations and names for coins that one could easily become confused as to their relative values.
		In 1691 the warrant to mint the tin coins was renewed by James Hoare in partnership with Andrew Corbett and Thomas Povey.
		Coins of these ‘former princes’ continued in circulation until at least the end of the century, and coins of Charles II were certainly still in use by the reign of Queen Anne.
	www.kipar.org /historical-resources/history_coins.html (4258 words)

	British Coin Designs
		A set of new coin designs enetered into the Royal Mint Open Competition to find new designs for the the Penny, the Two pence, the Five pence, the Ten pence the Twenty pence, the Fifty pence.
		In 2005 The UK Royal Mint launched a competition to find new designs for the reverses of six United Kingdom circulating coins, from the penny to the fifty pence.
		features, British achievements whether social, political or cultural, or British institutions.
	coindesigns.50webs.com (518 words)

	Wonderful World of Coins February 2002 Issue
		As you know, a pound is an English gold coin, otherwise known as a sovereign of twenty shillings, or four crowns, or ten florins, or 240 pennies.
		I won’t go into farthings (coins of 1/4 of a penny), half-pence (coins of 1/2 of a penny), groats (four penny coins), six pence (coins of six pennies), half-crowns (coins of two shillings and a six pence), double florins (coins of four shillings), or half-sovereigns (coins of ten shillings, or two crowns, or 120 pennies).
		Twenty cent pieces were minted from 1875 to 1878 at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Carson City.
	www.journalofantiques.com /Feb02/coins0202.htm (933 words)

	British Twenty-Five Pence coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the decimalisation of British currency in 1971, the Royal Mint continued to issue the traditional crown type of coin, with the same old value of a quarter of a pound sterling, which in the post-decimal age was twenty-five pence.
		There were 7,452,000 cupronickel coins and 100,000 silver coins issued.
		There were 27,360,000 cupronickel coins and 218,000 silver coins issued.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Twenty-Five_Pence_coin (535 words)

	1982 British Coin Sets Still Available!
		The dies are highly polished on the flat surfaces, with a frosted finish on the design, the blanks from which the coins are struck are also polished before striking (minting), so that the finished coins show their designs to the absolutely best effect.
		Contains the same seven coins as the proof set, from the 50 pence down to the halfpenny.
		They are all superior to the mass produced coins which are made for circulation because of the absence of bag marks and scratches.
	www.24carat.co.uk /1982coinsets.html (398 words)

	Heads on British Gold Sovereigns
		The gold sovereign coin derives its name from the majestic portrait of the monarch or sovereign on the very first sovereigns, which were issued for Henry VII.
		In the first coinage of James I, from 1603 to 1604, sovereigns of twenty shillings were issued before being discontinued, the previous pound coin was made lighter and renamed as a "unite".
		The gold broad of Oliver Cromwell was a twenty shilling coin, and so was the equivalent of a sovereign, however as Cromwell had temporarily removed the sovereign king of England, these coins also had to be renamed.
	www.goldsovereigns.co.uk /heads.html (1029 words)

	Falkland Islands Currency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The value of the Falkland pound is equal to that of British sterling, 100 pence to one pound, and both types of currency are in circulation in the Islands.
		On the twenty pence coin there's the good old sheep, on whose back the Islands were founded - maybe this should now show a squid...
		The five pence and ten pence are now smaller than the original coins, and have milled edges, while the rest apart from the pound coin have plain edges.
	www.falklandwool.com /islands/currency.html (442 words)

	UK Decimal Coins - 20 and 50 Pence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Twenty Pence coin was introduced in June 1982 to fill a very evident need for something to fill the gap between 10p and 50p.
		During 2007 it is planned to issue a 50 pence coin commemorating the centenary of the foundation the Scout Movement.
		After the introduction of the pound coin in 1983 demand for the coin dropped significantly, and although well used, fewer were tied up in slot machines, so the banks had a large surplus in stock.
	www.tclayton.demon.co.uk /dec20.html (1511 words)

	European Coin Cuff Links
		coin is bezel set on a solid sterling backing and mechanism which makes for a nice two-tone effect.
		Coins are bezel set and about the size of a US nickel.
		Each coin features a lion, the royal crown and passant, and is about the size of a quarter.
	www.cuffart.com /coins_cufflinks.htm (1019 words)

	British Coin Designs
		A set of new coin designs enetered into the Royal Mint Open Competition to find new designs for the the Penny, the Two pence, the Five pence, the Ten pence the Twenty pence, the Fifty pence.
		In 2005 The UK Royal Mint launched a competition to find new designs for the reverses of six United Kingdom circulating coins, from the penny to the fifty pence.
		features, British achievements whether social, political or cultural, or British institutions.
	coindesigns.50webs.com /index.html (518 words)

	Table 11. British Money
		European silver coin and its imitators: crown, daler, dollar, écu (écu á la couronne (crown)), peso, piastre, seudo, tallero, thaler (taler).
		Merk (17th c.) was originally a mark of pure of silver (20 sterling pennies), and were struck as coins in Scotland with a value of 160d = 13/4d.
		£1 coin designs: plain shield with coat of arms, Scottish thistle, Welsh leek, Northern Ireland blooming flax, English oak tree, and British royal coat of arms.
	www.peak.org /~jeremy/dictionary/tables/money_uk.php (147 words)

	British Coins 1816-2000
		Brass* - from 1992 "bronze" 1p and 2p coins were made from copper-plated steel.
		Silver* - from 1920 "silver" coins contained only 50% silver, and from 1952 "silver" coins were made entirely of cupro-nickel.
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	www.genuki.org.uk /big/Coins.html (119 words)

	4.1.2.1 The design and implementation of the CoinsADT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In addition to representing a single coin the package also exports a type which can be used to represent a set of coins.
		This type, known as CoinSets, is an array of individual coin stacks indexed by the Coins type.
		As this package contains within it all the details of which coins are available, their names and their values, the re-engineering of the coin hopper for a different country would require only that this package is changed and its clients are recompiled.
	www.scism.sbu.ac.uk /law/Section4/sec4/s4c1p21.html (394 words)

	English_Currency
		There are two forms of currency: paper and coins.
		Coins used and their values are as follows:
		If you’ve seen “British” movies, you’ve probably heard the terms “shilling,” “farthing,” “guinea,” “half crown,” or “florin.” Well, lucky for you, they are no longer used, so don’t worry about them!
	www.geocities.com /angelofmusic317/English_Currency.html (387 words)

	cover page
		The British used an ancient monetary system that involved twelve pence (pennies) to the shilling and twenty shillings to the pound, with a huge assortment of other coins like farthings, crowns and guineas.
		It is easier to distinguish denominations of currency in British pounds because, the more a note is worth, the bigger it is! A 5 pound note (called a "fiver") is the smallest folding money made, both in money and size, 10 pound notes are larger, and 20 pound notes are larger still.
		a) is the smallest of the seven British coins..
	www.american.edu /IRVINE/betsy/coverpage (1593 words)

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