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  Registered Member #172 Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54amPosts: 114 | I've a 1969 New Zealand coin that displays both '1 shilling' and '10' on the same side. I've entered it in the database under shilling. Since a shilling is 5 units, the 10 confuses me. Anyhoo, the question is that should it be entered as a shilling (as I have done) or is it 10 cents? | ||
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Deus Ex Machina   Registered Member #1 Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10pmCity, State:: Ocala, Florida Posts: 559 | Hey, It looks like New Zealand moved over to decimal coinage in 1967 and the last shilling coins were minted in 1965. So that coin seems to get classified as a 10 cent coin instead of one shilling. Here's a link to kaija's coin if anyone is curious to see: 1969 10 cent / 1 shilling coin I might have found a new coin for the coin of the month. Will see what other information I can gather. | ||
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| Registered Member #172 Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54amPosts: 114 | Of course! Thanks for clearing that up. I guess was thinking along British lines where the old shillings were legal tender as 5 pence up till the late 80s, that's what threw me. Thanks a bunch. | ||
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 Registered Member #378 Joined: Mon Mar 22 2010, 07:19amPosts: 260 | As I am from New Zealand,I can confirm that New Zealand changed to decimal currency on the 10th. of July 1967. 1 Shilling became 10 Cents.The 1967-69 10c. coins have the 'One Shilling' inscription to get people familiarised with the decimal currency system. The 6 Pence,1 Shilling,& 1 Florin coins remained legal tender for 5 Cents,10 Cents,& 20 Cents respectively until their withdrawal in late 2006. Aidan. | ||
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| Deus Ex Machina Registered Member #1 Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10pmCity, State:: Ocala, Florida Posts: 559 | That is good to know. Let me ask you, Aidan, as the years passed by, were residents finding themselves confused when seeing 6 pence, 1 shilling or 1 florin coins? Here in the U.S. that happens with our dollar coins and I find it amusing (and sad). Someone will hand a cashier 4-5 dollar coins and the cashier thinks they are 25-cent pieces. Someone has to explain to them that our country has been using dollar coins for hundreds of years. Then when that same cashier tries to give those dollar coins as change to a customer, the customer ends up wondering if she's being given counterfeit coins. It doesn't happen all of the time, but I have seen it a couple of times. | ||
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 Registered Member #322 Joined: Sat Feb 20 2010, 01:12amCity, State:: Cadet, MO Posts: 44 | not trying to highjack this thread, but it seems pretty active, I recommend you guys check out the link in BC's sig, it has some nice pic's, hopefully some that will be posted on here. Very insightful info btw. | ||
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| Registered Member #378 Joined: Mon Mar 22 2010, 07:19amPosts: 260 | Nicholas wrote ... That is good to know. Let me ask you, Aidan, as the years passed by, were residents finding themselves confused when seeing 6 pence, 1 shilling or 1 florin coins? Here in the U.S. that happens with our dollar coins and I find it amusing (and sad). Someone will hand a cashier 4-5 dollar coins and the cashier thinks they are 25-cent pieces. Someone has to explain to them that our country has been using dollar coins for hundreds of years. Then when that same cashier tries to give those dollar coins as change to a customer, the customer ends up wondering if she's being given counterfeit coins. It doesn't happen all of the time, but I have seen it a couple of times. Nicholas, I was born in 1976. We used to get the 6d.,1/-,& 2/- (1 Florin) coins turn up in change a lot when I was growing up in my home town of Wanganui.They were perfectly acceptable,being legal tender. Other coins that turned up a lot was Australian 5c.,10c.,& 20c. coins,along with 5c.,10c.,& 20c. coins from Fiji. I can still remember getting a Papua New Guinean 5 Toea in change,along with a few Cook Islands 1c. & 2c. coins. One time,I got a British large 10 Pence in change as 20c.,which really surprised me. Aidan. | ||
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