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123: Decimal Day
14 minutes Posted Feb 23, 2021 at 4:00 pm.
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After decades of false starts, in 1971 the United Kingdom moved to a decimalized monetary system. Leading up to the change, banks had to take on massive amounts of work and people across the country had to get used to new coins and updated prices for goods.

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