American Reacts to British Predecimal Currency

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Title	:	American Reacts to British Predecimal Currency
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I just seen that video your reacting to a few hours before seeing your reaction
Comment from : @smsff7

Have you ever seen a Penny-Farthing?
Comment from : @djgrant8761

We use a mix of Metric and Imperial in Britain
Comment from : @theotimeyt

Petrol pumps were I 1/8ths of a (Imperial) gallon so if your customer wanted his tank l filled and that was 3 7/8ths of a gallon at 8s 4 1/2p a gallon how much change do you give him if he gives you a £5 note?
Comment from : @johnfisk811

Here in east Africa like Uganda 🇺🇬 Tanzania 🇹🇿 and Kenya🇰🇪 still use shilling
Comment from : @simetaR2025

If u wer brought up on it it wer simple
Comment from : @vincentbrowne8639

For American you should make sense After all you use imperial system
Comment from : @matthewpage3356

Who misses the days of LSD?brbrPounds were represented by the letter L (from the latin Libra)brPennies were represented by the letter D (from the latin Denarii}
Comment from : @grahamgleed9040

Threepence, or Thruppence as we called it was my pocket money for the week I could get heaps of sweets for thruppence But we all knew how to add these Pounds Shillings and Pence in our heads We were so smart! LOL
Comment from : @Pollydoodle

18:30 „Why was the UK using miles?“ because the Romans conquered Europe about 2025 years ago :-) mile means 1000, still in actual Italien language… PS if you know some parts of the Bible, the Romans were also the people that nailed Jesus to the cross But they also brought wine, bathing, culture, stone roads, aqueducts, slavery, Pizza and much more ALL OVER Europe
Comment from : @tramper42

Still got a farthing and a three pence bit
Comment from : @kaygibson8942

You think this is weird, but inches and foot and yards and miles ar normal? brright
Comment from : @andreehobrak1425

We still use Imperial measurements (miles, yards, feet, inches) for longer distances alongside metric measurements and most cars here will have a speedometer that has bot an imperial & metric scale
Comment from : @tonyparkinson7224

Interestingly though they stopped minting sixpences in 1971, they remained legal tender (worth 2 1/2p) until 1980
Comment from : @tonyparkinson7224

Pre-decimal money is the same as stupid Imperial measurement inch-foot-yard-mile, all different conversions, throw in any and all forms of fractions 10s and 100s base is x1,000,000,000,000 better
Comment from : @XopheAdethri

The old Britain monetary system was standardized by parliament in 1224 but before that it was based on the Roman Libra Solidus Denarius system that Rome introduced to Britain in 43 AD its the reason why the symbol for the pound is an L, shillings S and pence is a d so Britain used the same currency system for over 1900 years
Comment from : @stuff9680

I used this system as a child and it’s soooo easy Bearing in mind that we were working in base 12,20, 10, is the biggest reason my generation are greatly superior in mental arithmetic than children born after the mid 1970s
Comment from : @Abogado-Del-Diablo

All Nordic countries except Finland uses crowns for currencies (Finland using €)
Comment from : @kmortensen9312

I worked in a UK Bank on Changeover day FUN!
Comment from : @juliabillman4693

The video is wrong about distances; our road signs are in miles and yards There was a suggestion a few years ago that we might change over but the government decided it would be too expensive to change all the road signs for very little gain
Comment from : @beaker2257

₹1000
Comment from : @balvirkaur7267

Like a guinea-pig, ok I'm gone 😂😂😂
Comment from : @joannemoore3976

Oh Tyler me dear, the £ far precedes the € and the countries which use the Euro previously had their individual currencies I remember the switch to Decimalisation and for a while people had conversion charts to help them eg a Shilling was equal to a new 5p (I think I was only 8 😂)
Comment from : @joannemoore3976

Average French American?
Comment from : @thedogsdiddies8421

We have always used miles And yards, feet and inchesbrUntil the 1980s we also still used foolscap size paper, which you still do
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

I still have no idea of the metric system But you use miles too, in the US, don't you?
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

We schoolchildren had 6 pence a day to spend on sweets on our way home from school in the 1960s On Saturdays I would buy a good quality hardback book for two shillings and sixpence
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

A bob was slang for a shillingbrA quid is still slang for a pound
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

A shilling would today be 5 pence There were 20 shillings in a pound 21 shillings was a guineabrA shilling was 12 old pennies
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

The pre-decimal currency hadn't changed much since 1066
Comment from : @anthonywalker6276

You probably won't see this comment, but if you want a video on the advantages to this system, you can watch lindybeige's video on pre decimal currency, or at least the last 10-20 minutes of it Basically 240 is a really useful number because you can divide it into a massive number of whole numbers Meaning you almost always have a way to divide your money into a whole number of smaller coins And one thing that this video doesnt really get into, but which is important historically is that for the majority of its existence, the pound was actually a very large sum of money, think something like a 100-500 dollar bill! Which meant that a shilling and the penny were what most people dealt in And if something was priced higher than 20 shillings, it was very often quoted in just shillings and pence, only if it was written down would it be written as shillings and pence It was only in the last few decades after the end of WW1 that the value started to drop substantially such that the penny and shilling became less devalued enough to not be worth the effort, much like the cent through quarter coins Not nothing, just not much
Comment from : @Nomenius1

We still use the imperial system for roads
Comment from : @deep_space_exploration

@Tyler You still buy and sell horses in guineas And we still use miles on our road signs in the UK
Comment from : @KennyMoss-u7o

You didn't even finish the video :/
Comment from : @coenisgreat

Imo currency is a large part of culture, to have swapped over to the euro was a bad idea, and i'm so glad we kept to the British pound All the European currencies that are now lost, it's such a shame
Comment from : @florencetlp

In terms of British measurements in general, we're honestly worse than you guys across the pond, because we use bboth/b systems and you just have to know on context, and no one ultimately comprehends eitherbrbrIf you want a drink, well, you use ml Unless you want a beer, which is still a pintbrbrYou want to weigh something? If it's a baby, you use lb Dr_gs, on a small scale is grams, mid scale you use oz, large you're back to kgbrbrHow big is something? Well if it's small, use cm Is it a little bigger? feet and inches Is it a person? feet and inches Is it kinda far but walkable? kilometres Are you driving? MilesbrbrThankfully, we don't touch Farenheit with a 10-foot barge-pole
Comment from : @RamSoberts

It was lockdown I was going crazy after 3 months indoors 😮
Comment from : @jackrich_350

I was born in 1975, so post-decimalisation, but the old Shilling and Florin (Two Shilling) coins did remain in circulation for a long time, as the new 5p and 10p coins were at the time the same size and weight as the old ones - meaning you'd sometimes look at your change and see King George's face rather than Queen Elizabeth'sbrThe 5p was made smaller in 1990, and the 10p in 1992, and, after a brief period of overlap, the older, larger coins were withdrawnbrAlso, the 20p wasn't created until 1982, so was not immediately after decimalisation
Comment from : @nickjeffery536

UK still use miles
Comment from : @spundefiant3925

it's imperial currencybrtry metric
Comment from : @musicpopuler2117

Old English money is in base 6 maths
Comment from : @terrytibs3365

The video contains a number of errors It ignores the 10/- (ten shilling) note - in common circulation until decimalisation, the sixpence was not immediately withdrawn - it continued in circulation until 1980 worth 2 1/2 pence and the farthing (quarter pence) carried on being used until 1960 Also I have never seen a UK road sign in km, or even heard of one If I was a cynical person I might suggest that they did these things just to try and encourage 'comments', but luckily I'm not!!
Comment from : @the_yorkshire_pudding

He's was saying he didn't know when England started using the pound (sterling) when it is in fact the world's oldest currency So, forever really lol
Comment from : @joelthorpe4170

I own some of the old currency and I'm 11 years old 🧐🧐
Comment from : @minecraftfnaflovers2023

Bring back l s d if only to confuse the wanker watching the video more
Comment from : @jonnybridge

Wow This video right here is the primary reason why Americans should keep their mouths shut
Comment from : @FelixJBAuk

Scotland was a separate country from England prior to 1707 Many people did not use coins greater than a pennybrThe Crown was not in general circulationbrThankfully modern coinage is more logical We do not have £1 notes but have £1 and £2 coins Coins are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p
Comment from : @Brian3989

Using base 12 now would be quite silly but it made plenty of sense before the invention of the pocket calculator, anybody with an iota of ability in mental arithmetic should be able to understand whybr The terminology for old British money is tedious & pointless to learn but the same is true about any dead languagebr Maths is a language that describe numbers, it's like any language in that if it isn't used frequently it's going to be very difficult to learnbrThere's no point to learn the old money system now but that doesn't make it nonsensicalbrWe industrialised large parts of the world using that system before IT was a thing, it was good enough for some of the world's most monumemtal feats of engineering as well as to manage the administration & bureaucracy (& explpitation), of 1/4 of the world's population
Comment from : @rohanharridge5579

Lol English use kms Mate Imperial measurements is British, the French invented metriç Americans are using the imperial system that only 2 other countries still use Libya and Myammar The entire world now uses metric Even Nasa uses the metric system
Comment from : @raymondhardy8468

After decimilization, the value of everyones money dropped threefold
Comment from : @loomick

Pre-decimal British coinage should be simple for anyone used to converting feet to milesbrbrAs to the guinea, it went out of circulation in 1816, though continued as a ivalue/i in some applications
Comment from : @GoranXII

They still use the Shilling in Kenya as it was colonised by the UK, & is still part of the British Commonwealth
Comment from : @samgrangirl6211

wow never heard any of them but i do remember the half pennie out of that list lol 😂 😂 but that's about it now don't exsit any moresince December 1984
Comment from : @BarbieSL

What happened to the good old ten bob note in this video How did it get so erased from history?
Comment from : @douglasb4505

We're do you think you Americans got imperial from? Miles, lbs ounces feet yards they are ours
Comment from : @ianfinney7057

2:20 i"That's because for centuries, the UK and Ireland used a different system of money to the rest of the world"/ibrThat's not quite correct It is, in essence, quite incorrectbrbrNon-decimal system were widely used since antiquity not in the least because it was simpler to divide a large unit into smaller ones Hexadecimal (base 16) or duodecimal (base 12) systems were often usedbrbrThis was kept when in late antiquity and early middle ages the European monetary system was turned over to be almost completely based on silver brThe basic unit was the pound (very roughly the weight of the currently used units the carolingian pound, which formed the basis of the first large monetary system, was just a bit over 400g)brAnd it was just that: one pound of pure silver One pound of silver was turned into 240 pennies these were the only "real" coins that were mintedbrbrLater on, larger coins were created, still based on weight The "Thick Penny" was worth 12 normal pennies, and formed the template for a number of larger coints, though the value varied But it could be considered the original "shilling"brbrThe value of all these coins was iin theory/i still based on their content of silver but devaluing the coins by making them from alloys with base metals was common and resulted in a loss of value, and respectively new coins showing up that tried to establish higher reliabilitybrbrIn the high middle ages, gold coins were started to be used again in Europe, resulting in the still known names like "Ducate" (minted by the Dukes/Doges of Venice), "Florin" (gold coins minted in Florence) or the various "Gulden" (well golden coins)br"Thalers" - the template for all the "Dollars" around were large silver coins equal in value to these golden coins They started to be minted in the late 15th centurybrbrAll these coins - regardless of how stable their value / metal content remained - did change over time, and thus the conversion factors between them, resulting in a highly convoluted monetary systembrBut at least in theory - and often used for more professional financial transactions - there remained the original units based on metal weight the "pound", the "livre", the "lira" or the German "mark" (which was half a pound)brbrThese systems were still non-decimal Decimalization was an invention of the modern times, and just like the metric system, took some time to be started and fully implemented With it came the spread of the idea that the value of a coin wasn't dependent on it's metal content, but on the state-guaranteed valuebrbrThe UK was just the last European country to switch from the old duodecimal system to the decimal one but they were behind just some one- to two-hundred years
Comment from : @Groffili

The last point you make there Yes, the UK still uses MilesbrThere's a lot of imperial around if you look for it, like milk and beer still come in pints, even though we use Litres, etcbrThe most obvious one is Miles on the roads, and miles per hour to measure speedbrAnd while some people have started to measure themselves in Kilos and Grams and Metres and Centimetres, I'm still one of the old-school people who measures my weight in Stone and Pounds (A stone is 14 pounds), and my height in Feet and Inches
Comment from : @bobingabout

3:06 Welcome to Imperial money! brAlso, it's pretty funny that as an American you use Imperial, so there's 12 inches in a foot, and 3 feet to a yard, etc, yet you instantly cringe at the idea of money using a similar system
Comment from : @bobingabout

There's an old Scottish song I heard a lot as a kid that sings about a kid who wants "a wee bawbee to buy some Coulter's Candy" I never knew that was an actual name of a coin - I thought it was just weird, old slang!
Comment from : @loretta_88

The reasoning given for the guinea was somewhat tongue in cheek In reality guineas were used for paying skilled tradesmen or buying from auctionbrbrThe pound would go to the tradesman and the shilling to his apprenticebrbrSimilarly the shilling would be the auctioneers fee
Comment from : @FoxDren

When the UK went decimal many coins continued in use, the new 5p was the same size and value as the shiling I'm not sure when the old shilings stopped being used but I suspect it was well into the 80s (confusing for non natives as the inscriptions on the coins made no sense in the new money) Meanwhile there was also the half new penny and the 6d (old pence is marked with a d) continued in use as a 25p coin Oh and don't forget the word pence is the plural of penny I suspect that part of the reason for keeping the old coins in use was to reduce the cost both to the Royal Mint and to the vending/gaming machine industry
Comment from : @philcoogan7369

The half pence was still kept after decimalisation, albeit with a new coin until 1984 The old sixpence was revalued as two and a half pence and was still used until 1980
Comment from : @peterjohnstone7006

Lol you use inches feet and yards but can't do the same with old money
Comment from : @garrygriggs1888

I still advocate for the 240 pence to a pound, it's just so much more divisible
Comment from : @absentia6164

I just don't understand why the USA doesn't use this currency system 😁
Comment from : @Streunekater

I'm a 30 year old British guy this is extremely confusing, when they said the shilling is 12 pence, your face is like what I was thinking😂 the new system makes so much more sense!
Comment from : @XclusiveAaron

The Imperial System came from Britain
Comment from : @spursgog835

We buy petrol in Litres but our cars do X miles per gallon 'MPG'brOur road distances are in MilesbrOur speedometers in cars are in Miles but also show kilometresbrWe use both inches, feet & yards alongside mm, cm & metresbrbrI bought a door the other day I said to the guy 27 inches wide and he said 686 mm 😕 I said as long as it's 27 inches wide it will fit 🙄
Comment from : @D1331D

I was 12 when the UK went decimal I knew that there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound (240 pennies in a pound) It was second nature to use
Comment from : @weenedonpetrol