Do you remember the days when lsd was our legal currecy

[RATTER15]

Now you locked up for possesing LSD.

Its a strange old world we live in.

[4getmenot]

I used to go to shop and get a 10p bag of sweets :-) The 1/2p ones were a bargain :-)

[redcrx]

i remember one pound notes :) and the big 10ps and 5ps and the half ps.

[Pippa68]

I think I was about 3 when decimalisation came in...young enough not to notice the change, anyway!

However I do remember my mum saying all the 'old money' conversions out loud for a couple of years afterwards!

[Pippa68]

I remember the notes were bigger too, red ~ and I remember pound coins being introduced and being turned away from newsagents as the old biddies didn't know what to do with them...and the pound coins were a bit bigger then, too.

[RATTER15]

pa___ul I never thought of that, the PC brigade, lol

Dont black Jacks have a little black man on the wrapper?

[noxlumos]

I remember both types of lsd ratter:)
Do you remember the old notes, really huge, and all the proper names also had nick names as well like "ten Bob" and so forth. Very confusing if I remember.

[RATTER15]

yes Nox

Ten bob note =10 shilling note, now = 50p
Tanner = sixpence, now = 2.5p
Thrupence or thupenny bit = three pence coin = work it from above.
Half a crown = 2 shillings and sixpence.

[RATTER15]

and a Farthing was a 1/4 of a penny coin.

[divegirl]

not any more!!!

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[RATTER15]

Very good Divegirl, lol just a shame to see that everything now comes prepackaged, we used to buy most of our sweets by the 1/4 lb from the jar behind the counter, and you still can buy some sweets that way in some of the older newsagents and sweet shops etc.

[Panic Button]

Fruit Salads or Blackjacks after swimming. 4 for an(old) penny

[Haggisdj]

The Shamen sang LSI - Love, Sex, Intelligence and lsd stands for librae, solidi, denarii which is Latin for pounds, shillings, and pence.

[Pippa68]

Blackjacks used to have a picture of a golly on them.

[RATTER15]

Pippa, yes they had a golly on them, but in those days before political correctness they were called Golly ****!!

another answer to be banned no doubt!!

[RATTER15]

You just gotta laugh!!!

[Pippa68]

Well that's why I called it a golly, RATTER ;o)

I owned several toy gollies when I was a kid. One of them was given to me by our West Indian neighbour, funnily enough. Although she might have been taking the pi$$!

[muffty]

Just to say Ratter, that lsd was �sd, not l for penny but l for pound.

We also called the 2 bob (shilling) coin a Florin.



Tail-end charlie xx

[RATTER15]

Mufty, of course you are right, I slipped up on that one lol.