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at HM Dockyard, Rosyth

I was in Edinburgh in '68, during the switch to metric, and I was forced to deal with not only farthings, ha'pennies, tuppence and thruppence, but all the currency you mentioned, plus half-crowns (no such thing as a crown, a half-crown was worth 2-and-6), and florins (2 shillings, or exactly the same as 10 new pence.) Of course, the metric currency was in circulation too, just to make things interesting.

Fortunately, my ship had rescued the crew of a capsized sailboat in the Firth of Forth, and neither I nor my mates had to pay for our own drinks the whole time we were there.

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