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Decimalisation Poems - Poems about Decimalisation


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...A
pound
Sterling –
two forty
Saxon hammered coins;
silver pennies or “little stars1”.

It
was
Offa
of Mercia,
eighth century king2,
first issued the silver penny,
and two hundred and for...
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Categories: decimalisation, money,
Form: Fibonacci

Four Farthings For Four Chews

...Four Farthing For Four Chews.
We only had a penny each but it could buy four chews
In the days when it was four farthings to a penny
Glass jars lined up like soldiers; it was so hard to choose
There ...
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Categories: decimalisation, nostalgia, money,
Form: Pantoum




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