The sixpenny coin will remain legal tender until the end of the change-over period.
Nearly 50,000,000 sixpenny and shilling postal orders were issued last year, out of a total of 210,000,000 of all denominations.
There is no shortage of the sixpenny—2½p—coin.
In helping themselves to change to the new system they dismissed the sixpenny piece from their minds.
We must make the change as easy as possible, and this can be done by keeping the traditional sixpenny piece.
If a man takes six pennies out of one of my pockets and puts the sixpenny piece into the other, what is the difference?
Does he believe that machines designed to take sixpenny pieces will be able to discern such a small difference?
At the present time they are allowed to raise up to a sixpenny rate; but very few authorities do raise a sixpenny rate.
