Flickr/joncutrer Continental Congress Sets the Dollar as the Official U.S. Currency On July 6, 1785, the Continental Congress ...

Some few years after Ghana gained independence from British colonial rule, the country adopted the cedi notes and pesewa coins to replace the Ghana pounds; shillings and pence, on July 19, 1965.

The old pounds, shillings and pence will continue as legal tender for another two years. When C-day finally arrived last week, many Aussies still could not make head or tail of the new money.

One of the lesser benefices conferred by Britain’s empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire ...

The pound sign came from “librae”; the shilling sign from “solidi”; and the pence sign from “denari”, these all being Roman terms. Coins with the English monarch’s head on them first appeared in 1504, ...

February 15 1971 marked the official date the United Kingdom decimalised from its historic pounds, shillings and pence to the new system of 100 new pence to the pound. Known as Decimalisation ...

Australian currency was originally based on British pounds, shillings and pence. That changed in 1966, when the country converted to Australian dollars and cents, similar to the U.S. system. The ...

UK stock prices are quoted in pence rather than pounds and have been for years. But why? Katie Royals takes a look at possible reasons.

In 1971 the UK finally caught up with the rest of the world in switching from pounds, shillings and pence to a base-10 system. The move came about after a 1960s parliamentary committee for ...

The pre-decimal system was made up of pounds, shilling and pence , and was used before we switched over to our current currency system in February 1971.