Hilarious!

Nowadays it's just some weird electronic elevator music and a Canadian announcing what's going on.

Of course it did radios hadn't been invented all music had to be strummed out live. Usually by the upper classes to soothe the workmen into a false sense of ease. 🧐

And a cheerful chap to narrate 😂

At least in the US, from the 1860s-1920s it was very common for factory workers (particularly cigar makers) to pool their wages together to pay for one guy to play them all music or read to them while the rest worked. It’s in particular why cigar workers became so radicalized and led much of our Union movements, as they were all paying for one guy to either play music or read socialist agitprop to them all day.

are narrators hard to understand nowadays?

​@@STS-Dreamerthey're robots who mispronounce all of the heteronyms.

Ennit bruv

@@STS-Dreamer this was made when English speaking people spoke English, not gibberish and slang.

The joy of radio voice.

Nice.

What a rat.

The romans had ridges towards the end of empire mongo

Earliest examples we can find are Roman, Newton did not invent coin ridges.

Idiot

Excellent.

So cool!!

Well they were silver originally and were still known as such back then, but weren't made with silver any more.

No it’s not. They are just saying they are called silver (due to the colour) but in actuality they are not and are in fact cupro nickel.

They used to be 50% silver until 1946. Before 1920 I believe it was .925.

Why?

​@@badofcheese no silver content after 1946

We still do.

where do you think new coins are made? Uruguay? You’re really unintelligent

Where do you think our coins are made now

Where do you think our money is made, China?

Thanks big corporations for choosing unlimited profits over paying their works a fair share

He is* not "bros"

@@JM-mg4el Ok lil bro

@@SKOOBINGTON brainrotted gen alpha

​@@JM-mg4elJuvenoia.

@@JM-mg4elthe word bro is not a gen alpha exclusive slang. Quit being a whingey old asshole.

The type of film can be greatly manipulated whereas nowadays we cant.

Here in Australia in as recently as 1966 we still had coins made out of 80% silver. Also there are still valuable metal coins such as sovereigns. They are just not made for general circulation.

It says at the top the screen

It’s literally them, they’re probably just pulling this straight their old programs

They have absolurely massive film archives

Find them? They made them

It’s literally British Pathé. The French film company that basically made all of the film in the 20th century

Smartest reform voter 🤦‍♂️

@@hcuk2848nwn Yes, in the last seventy eight years there have been absolutely no demographic changes in Britain.

@@robertmartin6800 it’s thinly veiled racism. And you should be ashamed of yourselves. They give you what you want to hear and then they’ll take away your freedoms, and you’re compliant.

No way voting will save us lol

You were still counting the riches you looted from Africa and India back then. Well. That was your masters I guess. You'll alway just be a peasant.

They don't make half crowns at all anymore lol weirdly enough I actually have a half crown in front of me on my desk

Cupronickel, a silvery alloy of copper and nickel. British coins stopped being silver in 1946.

Alright, give me your money if you do not consider them to be, I prefer in USD or EURO.

This was not real money, these were all made from relatively worthless materials, by the fifties the whole of the developed world had long since de facto abandoned proper commodity monies.

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 what hes saying is when money was made it had value for example my 1962 quarter i found today from canada is worth 2400% over face so yea thats when money was actually regulated now a whole roll of 80% silver quarters 240 cad just in scrap as of today

@@southerncanadiancoins757 I don't mind him thinking the money he has is worthless, he can give it to me.

Only after stealing the raw materials from colonies 🤣🤣

Asides from tea, fur, sugar, corn, PEOPLE, oil, etc

Usually purchased at a fair rate - colonies acted independently as businesses ​@@daltongalloway

@@witwicky5565 you know absolutely nothing about history

​@@daltongallowayit seems like neither do you nor nuanced topics. Technically you are both correct if you understand history.

best way to land in prison if they dont make it out of the mint its considered stealing

That's anti-Semitic

@@Osama_Zyn_Ladeni mean, there is good reason to distrust banks, as with any other large corporations. why you distrust them is where the anti semitism usually lies

Dummy, do you even know what fiat currency means? 😂

All currency is just an IOU from the bank of England. Physical coins and banknotes are virtually worthless otherwise.

I will agree that the right to use cash should be protected. Even though you're still in debt to the same bunch of people.... At least cash is not so easy to control and is anonymous. Wait till the Bank Of England get you by the balls with CBDCs.

Because metric is stupid. This is the ROYAL mint. They use proper units.

lmao

The white natives hadn't discovered DLA or PIP at this stage. They still worked for a living. Not like the chavs now.

So instead of waiting, you had to be the one to mention it yourself because you are part of the group that has to be the most annoying in the room? Nobody but you was thinking this, how fascinating is that?

@@jurxzy sigh.. but he is right...

@@albertbresca8904 Right about what? He brought it up because he was itching for it even though no one but himself was thinking it. I think he likes the diversity in the workplace so brings it up as often as possible.

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It's a shame that the natives are workshy peasants who just want to sponge off those of us who do work hard and pay into the system.

Sixpence

The one he was holding was a half crown. 12½ pence in decimal.

Atleast we have you to be the stupid one.

That's 2000ths (two thousandths) of 1 inch. If you don't understand what that means, the easiest way to understand it is like this: Take a measurement of 1 (One) inch long and mark paper at Zero, and at One inch mark. Then, with your ultra sharpened pencil, 😉, between the Zero line and the One inch line, now divide that Inch into 1000 equal spaces ... Just imagine drawing all those little lines between where the Zero (beginning) is, and the one inch mark is. So you would end up with a measure drawn on your notebook paper ie: ZERO is first line on left - I'''''''''''''''''''''''''I One inch mark is on far right. Now, see all the little marks and equal spaces I've put in between the two ends? Imagine there's 1000 equal spaces. When this video says, "The coin is then stamped, cut and polished, to a precise measurement within "Two thousands of an inch". So here's the answer for you after this long explanation! **Since you're told the new coins thickness specs., which is 'Two thousandths of an inch", you NOW KNOW that when you look at the marked and divided lines drawn above, you KNOW that new coin is going to be the accurate thickness to within (2) of those little equal spaces drawn into the example, because those are 'One thousandths of an inch each! So, two thousandths is the width of two of those spaces combined. Now, if the example said, a thickness or tolerance of 5 (five thousandths of an inch)/ 5000ths, all that would then mean is, a thickness equal to 5 of the small 1000ths spaces added up together. Hopefully you know understand well enough, to get a good enough feel to now know what they're talking about!

@@jmflyer55 you are awesome, seriously. Thank you very much for carefully explaining this, without any apparent sarcasm! I live in the metric system world but work with US companies, so it's far too common to run into situations where I don't have a frame of reference without having to resort to something like a phone, for ex. Sorry for the late reply, btw. Hope you're having an amazing day.

This was put in to prevent counterfeiting apparently.

People would clip little bits of the edges of coins melt the metal and make a new coin the ridges made it very easy to spot a clipped coin, an invention of sir isaac newton when he was the head of the royal mint

It's not Jon Pertwee.

You seem somewhat r*t*rded. The immigrants who came in from the wind rush were mostly brought in to fill in roles such as nurses cleaners, the sort. The materials used in these videos came from, *drum roll please* the colonies. And I don't mean bought, I mean stolen. Why am I trying to explain simple concepts to someone who is incapable of understanding it?

The British mint still uses a stamping press powered by a single donkey to produce their bit coins.

That's anti-Semitic

To prevent clipping I thought

​@tmarritt In this case, he's asking who was clipping coins so that ridges needed to be added.

@@mikefish8226 Who was?

@peepiepo Didn't he say "Just don't ask why". Granted, you are asking who, but in this case, it's the same thing.

Dont ask ​@@peepiepo