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MATTHEW ENGEL: The opening days of the 1970s saw a Liverpool road safety officer complain about girls wearing the new maxi-skirts as he was driving to work on dark winter mornings.

To mark 50 years since decimalisation in the UK, an expert from The Royal Mint highlights recent coins of interest.

It was dubbed D-Day, the day Ireland woke up to a new currency and abandoned £.s.d., a monetary system that had “debauched generations of school children”, according to Labour’s Justin Keating. Fifty years ago, a cold and wet Monday, February 15, 1971, “the new money”, as decimal currency was known, came into circulation, with 100p to the pound, instead of 240d or 20 shillings. The date was picked so that Ireland could make this leap in tandem with our British neighbours. The transition from old to new had been championed by Minister for Finance Charlie Haughey, while two of its mo...

>> have you completely eradicated your blue collar englishness? >> i got rid of it 40 years ago and reinvented myself. >> do you know what shaw rap national is? >> it is changing. >> it is change in your pocket. i know that. >> i was the guy who in march 1971 was a london transport bus conductor, and that what is the day when england switched from the old currency to the new decimal currency, speaking of change. you had to take the old money in and put it in your right hand pocket and give them changing in your -- in the new money out of the left. utter, utter chaos. >> the change soundy very ...