6 AUGUST 1910, Page 3

We publish in another column a letter on the advisability

of introducing the metric system. Here we desire to repeat a practical suggestion which we have on several occasions made in these columns. Why should we not add to the existing coins "a British cent.,"—a coin value one-hundredth part of a florin ? Then we should have at once for any one who cared to use it a decimal system of money. The pound sterling is ten florins, the shilling is half-a-florin, or 5) British cents., a sixpence is 25 British cents. The British cents. would seldom circulate, but they would be useful coins of account. The suggestion is, of course, not new, but we recommend it to the Master of the Mint and the Treasury fvr consideration.