The British �sd denominations were reflected throughout the Commonealth, except that by the time I was old enough to register it, the farthing was long gone and the halfpenny was being withdrawn. The fruits of inflation, I guess.

Our threepenny bits (yep, we called 'em "bits" as well) were physically proportional to their value in relation to the sixpenny piece (i.e. smaller). Me muvver used to wrap 3d bits up in silver foil and cook them into the Christmas puds for us to find. High excitement! Later on, when the 3d bit was headed in the same direction as the farthing, it became 6d pieces. The half-crown was a big, heavy coin and most kids liked having one because it felt like "real money".

Then in 1967 it was all change and we decimalised and money became pretty ordinary!