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I was a child in the 1980's and it didn't puzzle me. Not exactly rocket science, even at a very young age, to know that the two same sized coins meant the same amount, 5p and 10p - and it was explained to me what the distinction was, and the history behind them as well as the word "new", both by my parents and (at some point) at school. You only need to have something like that explained to you once, and it sticks for all time. It didn't actually make any difference to anybody, as I recall. Everybody knew what they were and it wasn't an issue. Not even a talking point. It may have confused some foreigners, possibly, but I'm sure they would soon have learnt what they were. By the way, what you quoted wasn't strictly accurate. He actually said: "However tourists and children were sometimes confused by these strange pre-decimal remnants"

I find this annotating and vetting of posts insulting. It is like you are not allowed to have an opinion. Rob's opinion is just as valid as anyone else. If you disagree at least have the courtesy to write your verson rather than correct someone else's like a schoolmaster. I used Rob's post as an example as it was the most recent case but comments I have posted have been annotated in a similar way in the past.

Or if M&B Mild, 1/10 ! By the way, I still remember 5p meters in 1980-82, i.e. the immersion heater in our bedsits bathroom.

I never used a machine, as you could buy cigarettes from the shops, but suspect they would have had 10p (2/-) as the largest coin because I vaguely remember 10 Sovereign being 10p, these being the cheapest available.

I concur. As one of the last children taught both imperial and metric systems in parallel, mental numerical agility came as second nature. 2.4 old pence to a new penny - no problem.

Many countries have used the word 'New' following a recoinage, with India and Israel immediately coming to mind. As for the retained use of the same large flans, it is quite helpful to have this as it requires no changeover for meters, and there were a large number of those across the country. e.g. Many houses had a gas meter. Many countries also have or have had smaller sized larger denominations, particularly at the changeover from the low denomination base metal coins to the higher value silver ones.

Trapped, in a coin https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/-Trapped/4?&id=5958

Parliament has just sold the electorate down the river. This is probably the last opportunity we will have to get out of the EU with a clean break and there is now a real danger we will never escape from the EU. The MPs' message that we will never leave without a deal means they might now pass May's crap deal as the least bad option. When we will be served by a bunch of politicians who put this country first? Their decision increases the likelihood that our lives will be determined, probably in perpetuity by a bunch of people in Brussels who frankly couldn't give a s**t about this country. Given Parliament's apparent collective desire to be ruled from Brussels, we can rest assured the no-deal will provide all the funding the EU wants, plus a bit more as a goodwill gesture. Needless to say we will have to pay heavily for the right to have no say, this despite effectively signing up to virtually all EU rules. The EU will be laughing all the way to the bank.

FROM THE GRAVE SEZ STEPHEN - I WANT MY BLOODY ROYALTIES NOW , NO MORE EXCUSES YOU LOT AT THE MINT

Croydon evidently

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/extremely-rare-1915-one-penny/183726981238?hash=item2ac6fb4076:g:F0MAAOSwJiBcWctO Where do these cretins come from ?

It is a matter of seeing any old man with a goatee one wants to see. 😀