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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 685927, member: 20205&quot;]Pre 1920. From then until 1946 it was 0.500, from 1947 onwards it was (and still is) cupro-nickel. I think the dominions held a higher standard of purity for their own silver coinage for longer though, leading to a bizzare situation were the Australian Pound for example, was worth less than the British one on the international exchange, despite the fact that the intrinsic value of its coinage (which was made in the same denominations and to the same dimensions as British currency) was worth more than that of Britain....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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