SENSIBLE MONEY
SIR,—As finance is being considered and planning is in the air, now is the time for our country at last to make an effort to simplify our coinage. Such simplification would immediately take a great burden off our young people .in schools and colleges, foreign visitors, and every merchant buy- ing and selling ; and would facilitate foreign trade.
Two very small changes would make our present coinage practically into a decimal system, and I suggest the following: 5 farthings = I penny to pennies = t shilling to shillings = x half-sovereign
20 shillings – I sovereign (t pound)
too shillings = 1 fiver
The small difference in the value of the penny when ten to a shilling would, for practical purposes, be balanced up by the five farthings to a penny. Adjustments, very trifling in practice, would effect this major benefit to our country. May I urge public support for this simple but fundamental reform?—Yours faithfully, MARIE C. STOPES. Norbury Park, near Dorking, Surrey.
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