Talk:Twenty pence (British coin)

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Why a 20p and not 25p, since the previous Crown was equivalent to 25p in decimal currency? -- Nik42 06:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The decimal currency seems to be predicated on a 1-2-5 10-20-50 £1-£2 regular series of coins, £5-£10-£20-£50 notes, so logically a £5 coin will be next in common circulation. This seems to be the normal pattern in European currencies, the only exception I can think of was the old Dutch guilder which had 5-10-25cent, 1, 2.50 and 5 guilder coins, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 1000 guilder notes. The old Crown was never a common circulating coin, so I doubt it would have been taken into consideration. -- Arwel 15:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 25 subunits, while less common than 20, are certainly not that rare. It's used in, for example, the the Danish krone, the Maltese lira, the Ukrainian Hryvnia, and a few others.  The former Spanish peseta had a 25-peseta coin.
 * Still, if the Crown was never very commonly circulated, then I suppose it would make sense that it wouldn't be considered in establishing a new coin -- Nik42 04:58, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The number 20 is better cause if you want to abolish your 5 you can easily, but if you have 25 (like in the US), you have to abolish it the same time you get rid of your 5 (which the US will need to dump in at most 10 years)The Right Honourable 07:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * heh —Tamfang (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * It's simply the system. With 1, 2 and 5 denominations, any value can be created with a maximum of 3 coins/notes per digit of the total value. Eg £9.99 or £88.88 until the £100 mark. There's no reason 25 couldn't have been used, it would simply have required different combinations. Audigex (talk) 12:13, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Who is Heather Langridge?
I did a web search for Heather Langridge whose 20th birthday apparently a grateful nation celebrated in 1971 but could find nothing relevant. I notice the same person is referenced by the same phrasing in http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Twenty_pence_(British_coin) so who copied who and why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PCWoodgnome (talk • contribs) 02:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

New Obverse Image Needed
The obverse side of the coin has now changed, with the adding of the year. David (talk) 13:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I have now taken care of this. Alienturnedhuman (talk) 19:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

angles
Somehow I misremembered that the 20p has nine corners vs the 50p's seven. Has there ever been a nonagonal coin? —Tamfang (talk) 09:06, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Why the unusual cupronickel
Is there any explanation of why it is 84:16 cupronickel rather than the 75:25 of all the other UK 'silver' coins ? Rod57 (talk) 02:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

20p pattern for original decimal series
There is an interesting article on the Royal Mint's website that shows designs were well advanced for a 20p coin that would have entered circulation at decimalisation in 1971. Possibly, it may even have been intended for it to have circulated from 1968-71 as a 4s coin, in the same way that the new 5p, 10p and 50p coins were introduced early for public familiarisation purposes (which was possible as they has exact pre-decimal values, i.e. 1s, 2s & 10s). An image of the coin can be found here.

Is this fact worthy of inclusion here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.185.6 (talk) 12:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Exact date of issue
The exact date of issue was, according to The Times Feb 11 1982, scheduled to be June 9 1982. The article doesn't mention the exact date of issue. Why don't you put in June 9 1982 as the exact date of issue? After all, you have space to include absurd, robotic nitpicking about '20 pence coin' versus '20p coin', so you should also have space to include the exact date of issue. Guyal of Sfere (talk) 22:46, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

About a coin
Is that 20p elizabeth coin is rare...? 175.157.241.51 (talk) 17:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)