Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "This Parcel Left Us SPEECHLESS...." video.

  1. The Queensland fix is a memorable bonus.
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  2.  @hermansnazzledorf2950  Rarely saw them in 1966. Fifty cents was big money then. Enough to buy five or more days of newspapers or two gallons or so of petrol or around eight litres.
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  3. Yep.The jingle is why everyone remembers the changeover date. Or the colour version from the NFSA with comments allowed : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs
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  4. Even some of the older one and two shilling pieces had higher silver content. Were kept in families as safer for the Christmas pudding tradition. For quite a few years after 1966 you would still see them in change. Then the price of silver rose rapidly in the seventies or so and the old silver coins were scooped up by the illegal melting down merchants.
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  5. G'day Ian. More on the change to dollars and cents : https://youtu.be/x-RiX5NCn8w
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  6. Some of the values of the most sought after early coins : https://youtu.be/h_izyLlSQxc
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  7. Pretty sure he took out Australian citizenship at some stage early on.
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  8. I remember as a kid that a half Penny would buy one to four of the loose lollies at the local milk Bar shop. As a kid the owner would sometimes throw in a few extra if you were young enough and known as being well mannered and well behaved. Back before sixty years of inflation made the old coins more valuable for the metal content. Although the right ones in good condition can be valuable. Years earlier there was a quarter penny called a farthing and an eighth penny called a mite. Never saw them though. Gone over a hundred years or so ago. A much watched vid from the NFSA from the time we converted from Pounds Shilling and Pence to Dollars and Cents : https://youtu.be/5ZTeWLA1LAs Most who heard the song then remember the conversion date Before this even children in fourth grade needed to learn the complicated currency arithmetic as shown in the film. Nowadays even bank tellers need calculators.
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