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JAFO wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:20 pm I came across a listing on ebay where they were selling old UK coins gilded and turned into cufflinks.
They had farthings (copper alloy) and sixpences (originally sterling silver, but then cupro-nickel alloy), which are about the right size.

I bought a pair for my birth year. 1953. They didn't have any farthings for 1953. Maybe they didn't make any in 1953, possibly because of the coronation. Farthings ceased altogether in 1956.

Anyway, here's my cufflinks. (as yet unworn)
I’ve come close to buying old coin cuff links on may occasions. I just don’t wear cuff links enough to justify the expense.
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I wouldn't have paid a lot. Mine were about £10
I have looked at various watches, and watch movement cufflinks, but I wouldn't want to pay a lot just for a whimsy.
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I too have a pair of 6d cuff links, they were pretty cheap I think. The 6d coin remained in circulation until well after decimalisation, so they are relatively common.
At one time, there was a pub in North Wales (The Douglas Arms in Bethesda) whose landlord refused to accept the change to decimal currency and charged all his prices in Lsd. Although they of course used decimal coins, the bar staff would count your change back in the old currency. Watching the expression on the face of someone drinking there for the first time was priceless!
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Thanks for everyone's help with this, we have a general idea now on value and what they are.
Much appreciated.
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I am too young to remember pre-decimalisation but it must have been a PITA with 240 pence/pennies to the pound. Of course there was also a guinea (21 shillings or 252 pence :? )
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A bit harder to add up columns of figures, but it's what you're used to. No different to the French numbering system.

We use stones and pounds, feet and inches. If you grow up with it, it's second nature.
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JAFO wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:49 pm A bit harder to add up columns of figures, but it's what you're used to. No different to the French numbering system.

We use stones and pounds, feet and inches. If you grow up with it, it's second nature.
Yes I was being slightly glib. I'm equally old enough to have used and still use imperial and metric weights and measures as required we get a bit of both in the UK (sorry can't recall where you live) :thumbup:
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No. I'm in the UK, not France. The French reference was the way they count numbers from 60 upwards. Very strange, but they manage.
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JAFO wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:13 pm No. I'm in the UK, not France. The French reference was the way they count numbers from 60 upwards. Very strange, but they manage.
Yes it is slightly strange but fine once you’ve learned it. 99 is literally four twenties and nineteen (quatre vingts dix-neuf)
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