Royal Australian Mint open day to celebrate 50th anniversary of decimal currency

By Meghan Corcoran
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:03pm, first published February 12 2016 - 7:37pm

Five decades ago, Australians braced for a significant change in the way they used money as the country shifted from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents.

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