Why is Australia's currency dollars and cents?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

It used to be Pounds Shillings And Pence, However we thought better of it the decimal system is a far easier and more efficient system of currency. A system that works on abase of 12 then changes to a base of 20 is just a little cumbersome for a efficient outcome,

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∙ 14y ago

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