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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 14134, member: 708&quot;]Actually that&#039;s wrong...</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the sixpences in circulation by 1980 were the 1947+ Cupronickel issue, they weren&#039;t in circulation because of their silver content... they were in circulation (however grudgingly from the government&#039;s point of view), simply because upon decimalisation in 1971 it was possible to give and recieve correct change for them, 2 1/2p. So why demonetise them? It&#039;s only by the mid 70s that people began to look upon a 2 1/2p coin as an odd denomination. So in 1980 they went.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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