How much is that in real money?
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50 years ago today, the UK went decimal and the phrase "How much is that in real money?" entered our vocabulary. Us youngsters became the walking calculators for our parents - providing a translation service between the "old" (12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound), and the "new" 100p to the pound. Yes, LSD was a crazy set of monetary units, but I'm pretty sure mental arithmetic skills went downhill after we went decimal. But if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you... ;)
Canada hasn't had real money since 1967, the last full year of silver coinage. If you do the conversion between Imperial and metric, a dime bought a liter of gas then. It still does, though you'd have to take it to a coin shop first. The last year for the US was 1964, but I don't know the last year for the UK.
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