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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 19

Shopping will be easy from DC Day Helpful hints on how to use dollars and dollars and cents. However, they may be used cents in your everyday life for dollar/cent shopping in lots of 6d (which is exactly sc). Simpler money: Dollars and cents simplify our . , , . money, make it easier to use. Each 10/- Writing in dollars and cents: The following becomes $l, so each £1 is $2, the dollar symbols are recommended: the dollar symbol divides into 100 cents. Each Shilling is 10 cents js a single-barred $, the cent is a simple small c (instead of 12 pence). So each cent is worth So fifty-five dollars should be written as $55 lUnpnrp (or $55.00). Three dollars fifty cents as $3.50. P ‘ Eight cents as 8c or 8 cents (or $0.08). From changeover day July 10 you’ll use both Remember, if you use the $ sign always have kinds of money There’s no need to change one fj gure between the $ and the decimal point your money just because of DC Day. One kind |j ke this: of money is as good as the other. And, because $l.BO $O.BO July 10 is only the beginning of the changeover, ways two figures after the decimal point you’ll continue to use both kinds of money for tQ show the number of cents> Howeve r f if hand some time. All shops will accept either cur- wr j t j ng a cheque, always remember to use a renc y- hyphen like this Of) Banknotes: £.s.d bank notes will be withdrawn / OtZ from DC Day. Complete withdrawal should only Speaking j n dollars and cents: It will be enough take a few weeks. This is no problem because to say .< two do || arS( ten -« f or two dollars and dollar notes can be used in £.s.d shopping. You t ts S2 10 simply use asl note as 10/-, as2 note as . * ’ £1 While they are circulating, £.s.d notes can Changing prices to dollars and cents: Who e be’used in dollar/cent shopping. Just use 10/- pound and whole shilling prices convert easily as $l, £1 as $2. to dollar and cent prices. Each £1 is $2 ana These are the values of the new dollar notes: each V* is 10c :^ e^ eSe k Rnr . $1 (brown) = 10/- $lO (blue) =£s£l is $2; £4.10.0 is $9; 5/-is 50c $2 (mauve) = £1 $2O (green) £lO 17/- is $1.70 $5 (orange) = £2.10.0 $lOO (red) = £5O All prices ending in 6d also convert exactly: (this is a new value) 6d j s 5 C 3/6 j s 35c Coins: Just as £.s.d and dollar notes are-inter- However, penny prices do not convert exactly, changeable, so are the following £.s.d coins so you w j|| need to remember this chart:— and their cent equivalents. Below are the values of the new coins: . aZUnR~5456769 1011~12l scis6d; 10c is 1/-; 20c is 2/-; 50c is 5/- WMM WR 234SfeT8 8 910 The 1c and 2c coins, being worth IVs pence and same drqpone opoptwo 2% pence respectively, are suitable mainly for dollar/cent shopping. However you may use What fo do - jf haven . t the right change: tf one cent and two cent coins in £ s.d shopping haven - t the rjght amountf a | ways offer a in lots of 5c (exactly equal to 6d). little more —to the next sixpence. This way Half-pennies, pennies and threepences on the t|| recejve the ri ht change every time, other hand are suitable mainly for £.s.d shop- J L n ping, because they have no exact equivalent in So you see, shopping will be easy from DC Day. Cut this Information Ij out and keep it handy y ■ In your purse or wallet f Remember- * D. C. Day is next MONDAY tjQ Issued by the Decimal Currency Board. Mb MF 110.12 - -