Bring back old monkeys!

Jesus Wept

Irish pound notes - great yokes!

Not having 20 quid worth of coins on your person all the time, fantastic!

In the old days (pre January 2002) you could count your change in your pocket, the coins we're different sizes and colours (what a time to be alive!), the 50p was even a different shape, fantastic, great stuff.

Nowadays you need take out a monocle to work out how much you have.



Apparently, there was even older money before the old money, but I am not au fait with this.


Irish pound note

Irish 50p



Would you like to roll things back?

bronte

Let's go back to old old money!

Yes..I miss these yokes!

GLaDOS

10c, 20c and 50c coins can get annoying alright

weeder

Atari-jag-YORE-MA

first vote! woot lol
how about we keep euros but remake them to resemble old irish stuff

chopperbyrne

No way, I like travelling around Europe without the need to change currency.

magick

no change the shape of the euro coins, no to old money and old ppl

Jesus Wept

Let's go back to old old money!

ScienceNerd wrote:

10c, 20c and 50c coins can get annoying alright

I tend not to pay for things in coins, and I sort them all out every few months and change them for cash.

Sorting out 1c and 2c coins is beyond headwrecking.

Crumble Froo

Let's go back to old old money!

aw, the old money was class. and infinitely better pictures than the new money.


what the hell was the bird on the 50p anyway, i never figured that one out?

Ruu_Old

Let's go back to old old money!

I thought the pound coin was pretty cool as was the brass coloured 20p. Link here.

Jesus Wept

Let's go back to old old money!

pound coins were cool, they were big, but they were light, and as always, easy to decifer.

The Bollox

Let's go back to old old money!

the bird on the 50p was a seagull afaik (so so tempted to say 'YORE MA!).

I still have loads of old money. I have the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p, £1(coin), £5 & £20

Voodu Child

Ruu wrote:

I thought the pound coin was pretty cool as was the brass coloured 20p. Link here.

I used to colour in 2p coins with a gold marker and pass 'em off as 20p's. I ate some amount of cola bottles that year

Dave!

Wish I had kept one of each coin But I probably spent them all on sweets

There's probably some down the side of the couch actually!

Pherekydes

Don't you love how the Toll bridges have a sign saying "No Copper coins".

Back to pounds, shillings and pence, I say. Decimalisation is for softies.

OP: the reason for the 1 and 2 euro coins is because the 1 euro note would resemble used toilet tissue after about a week. The fivers are bad enough as it is.

Zaph

narco wrote:

what the hell was the bird on the 50p anyway, i never figured that one out?

It was a woodcock, the design was originally on old farthings (a quarter of an old penny).

WindSock

zaph wrote:

It was a woodcock, the design was originally on old farthings (a quarter of an old penny).

I thought it were a windhover.

WindSock

...But google says woodcock too.

How much wood would a woodcock cock if a woodcock could cock wood?

Zaph

boreds wrote:

I thought it were a windhover.

Not according to here (scroll down to the 5th picture).

WindSock

oooOOOooo The even older moneyer is prettier. Yeah at least bring back those pics to put on the backs of the smelly neuros.

StupidLikeAFox

Little Known Fact: There are still between 50 and 70 people a DAY bringing back old irish money to the Central Bank to convert it into euros. Fascinating stuff...

The Real B-man

Atari-jag-YORE-MA

Ahh but the older coins where much larger the pound coins & 20ps ffs! the euro is great for going abroad and all that but ever since it was introduced we are getting ripped off in this country bought a camera online in france the other day saved €100!! i mean its ridicolous bring back the cheapness

Poxyshamrock

Yeah i loved the old money! mind you i only knew it for 10 years of my life max. I loved the irish folklore characters on the coins and the historical figures on the notes....ah the years of getting a pound for sweets or if you were very lucky you might get a glimpse of Catherine McAuley

Black Swan

Another poll choice Rig?
Let's go electronic and get rid of hauling about silly old currency. Debit cards? Credit cards?

Rovi

The-Rigger wrote:

Apparently, there was even older money before the old money, but I am not au fait with this.


Irish pound note

I laugh in the face of your poncy newfangled pound note!
THIS is an Irish Pound Note-
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4962/irelandrepp2a1pound1937qr5.jpg

Pinker

Yeah!! I had a lovely Orangutan,.... what?..oh sorry I thought the thread said "Bring back the old monkeys?"..sorry, ok I'll leave now.....(sound of sad footsteps)

Ruu_Old

Let's go back to old old money!

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Another poll choice Rig?
Let's go electronic and get rid of hauling about silly old currency. Debit cards? Credit cards?

The government already charge us for using our own money with debit (laser) and credit cards though.

rossie1977

bring back the old money and lose out each time in exchange rates :mad: no way jose

EdgarAllenPoo

Let's go back to old old money!

If memory serves we actually got more for the Punt against the English pound than we do with the Euro. Arse to the € back to the IR£.

Reku

While I do feel nostalgic for the old money the euro makes shopping abroad far more simple... would have to know if the euro had any benefit on the economy or not, I could vote either way.

Archeron

Atari-jag-YORE-MA

Bartering is the best way. At least with bartering, you know that a new camel is never more than a bucket of shiny beads and a red haired girlfriend away.

Ishmael

Just get rid of the 1c and 2c coins and round all the prices of stuff to multiples of 5. They are most unuseful!

_blank_

Let's do away with money, and barter for things like they did pre 1980

Wow, I found an old 50p piece and brought it to the pub on Monday evening.

What was on the 5p - a pig, a boar or a cow?

I have a some Dublin Milennium 50ps, a 2000 Milennium pound coin.

I remember the 20ps came out, and my dad gave us one...ONE...each. Shiney.

Jesus Wept

Let's go back to old old money!

ColHol wrote:

Little Known Fact: There are still between 50 and 70 people a DAY bringing back old irish money to the Central Bank to convert it into euros. Fascinating stuff...

heh, I'll be one of them soon, maybe even today!

found a bag of coins stuffed in a drawer (they were here when I moved in)

seamus

GDM wrote:

If memory serves we actually got more for the Punt against the English pound than we do with the Euro. Arse to the € back to the IR£.

Well, we also got more for the euro back then, than we do now. The punt was fixed against the euro way back (1997 I think?), so at that point you got the same amount of GBP whether you paid in punts or euros.

I have to admit I liked the 20p and £1 coins, but I much prefer the neatness of the euro coins. Much easier to count and arrange.

Archeron

Atari-jag-YORE-MA

DesF wrote:

What was on the 5p - a pig, a boar or a cow?



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A man-bear-pig.

DaBreno

I miss the old money. £20 quid would do you for a week. Now it seems the €50 is the old 20. No value to money anymore.

Remember if you had a £50 punt note? You felt rich. I loved the old fiftys.

Stephen

That's inflation for you.
How about a poll option that doesn't agree with the OP?

monkeyfudge

Well I completely misread the topic....

No place for me here... bye..

Zaph

Rovi wrote:

I laugh in the face of your poncy newfangled pound note!
THIS is an Irish Pound Note-
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4962/irelandrepp2a1pound1937qr5.jpg

Now that's proper money. They were feckin' huge, and got bigger as the denominations went up. I remember the first time I saw an old £50 note, you could nearly wallpaper a room with one.

DesF wrote:

What was on the 5p - a pig, a boar or a cow?

A bull

Demonique

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about bringing back that old TV show about those four guys who had Beatles style hair cuts, only one of them was a Brit tho, rest where all yanks

monkeyfudge

Nice....