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When Britain Went Decimal - The coinage of 1971 (Hardcover)
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When Britain Went Decimal - The coinage of 1971 (Hardcover)
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The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to
adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to
do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the
1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was
the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal
several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common
sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than
pounds, shillings and pence? The route to find the right designs
was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling
artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over
five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50
pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media
and public think of it when it was launched in 1969? When Britain
Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day
(decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the
process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While
decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to
inflation, as many people believe today? Entertainingly written and
beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since
1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as
much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as
at social, economic and political history.
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