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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 354526, member: 6036&quot;]Nice ! Where can a guy order a proof set ?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I remember decimalization of UK coinage. I don&#039;t remember which year it was - I&#039;m thinking 1969 - but they released coins in advance !</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So there I was ... holding coins with dates a year or two in the future . For a little kid, that was quite a novelty.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also remember the news stories about all the short-term confusion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was reading last night in <i><u>Penny Whimsy</u></i> (Sheldon) that America&#039;s adoption of a decimalized money system caused much confusion at the time (1790&#039;s). But then, having coinage from all those different empires had to be confusing no matter what we did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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