WE HAD SOME Interesting suggestla for the new European currency from the over eights for last week's ..

... competition is ten-year-old Kevin Rush, of 8 Tile Barn, Wootton Hill, Newbury. He made three suggestions of names for the new currency, but the one we liked best was Trader. This we thought was very appropriate, since the Common Market is based on free ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1972
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
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No point in change

... nothing to do with money; it is a corruption of the old English Sexpena Hanlega. To keep its monetary value the same in the new currency, it would have to be renamed Tanner Handley, or Tuppenyha'penny Handley. ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TO COIN A PHRASE

... fi pence or five shudder, shudder — the habit of saying The Dots Board retirement without call its damned bits the new currency had has been left to pu last sortie into the was the creation of telly —to decide change will finally Five pee, ...

Published: Monday 10 January 1972
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
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Smooth first year for decimal money

... adjust. However, we had very little trouble. the new currency.* tie added that be had received DO complaints at all Crosby shopkeepers. The borough's elderly also appear to have got used to the new currency. Jean Kerrigan, the secretary of the Crosby People's ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1972
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 487 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

MALTA GOES DECIMAL AT LAST

... of the British and Arab systems. Malta, moreover, has devised an ingenious means of making the people familiar with the new currency by illustrating on the new stamps the new coins of corresponding value. 7 • RTAIVIP STORY ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1972
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MALTA GOES DECIMAL AT LAST

... of the British and Arab systems. Malta. moreover, has devised an ingenious means of making the people familiar with the new currency by illustrating on the new stamps the new coins of corresponding value. ; . STAMP STORY ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1972
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

This Week's Competition

... a new European currency. You Ma% have heard on the news this week that talks are going or with a view to establishing a new currency for all countrte• in the Common Market This will mean the end of the German mark. the nut, can the% call the new curr 'Ound ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1972
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 330 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

This 'sixpenny' has not gone decimal This read sign, at the approach 0 the moth .tree/ or Hoodier. in Dorset,

... had nothing do with messy; it is a corruption the old English Bexpena Hanlega. To keep its monetary value the same in the new currency, ft would have to be re-named Tanner Handley. or Handley. SPONSORE6 WALK ON THE MOOR H OPING that the bi shining n n moor ...

Tax men stick to shillings and pence Birmingham Post Kidderminster Cenespeadeat Shillings and pence live on, ..

... a new town centre shop. Has the Inland Revenue which is responsible for property valuation for rating, opted out of the new currency No, as official explained the shillings and pence method of reckoning used before February. 1971, has only a limited life ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Valuers stick to shillings and pence Birmingham Post lUddermlnster Correspondent Shillings and pence live on, ..

... new town centre shop. Has the Inland Rieveune, which is responsible for property valuation for rating, opted out of the new currency ? No, an official explained the shillings and pence method of reckoning used before February. 1971. has only a limited ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

she told me over lunch at the House of Lords, in London's Westminster, where she works as a typist. That

... Assistance until they find accommodation, and they can't get anywhere td live without money. Many of them don't even know the new currency. Old habits die hard, and it's hardly surprising if. in face of all this, a man decides that his best plan is to get back ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1972
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 940 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

YOUNG

... Perhaps the Abu Dhabi has issued its own Post Office overprinted old stocks s tamps. After March 1964 these overwith the new currency. printed British stamps were used Yes. I suppose that is pos- only in Muscat. But at the end of sible, George admitted ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1972
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
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