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So you're old enough to remember them as well?

I KNEW that was coming.....

Ah, tanner's, farthings, thruppenny bits, half crown's - what memories?

Johnny-come-latelys in currency terms.

I remember groats- they were great [great groats, we used to call 'em, ha
ha]. Solid lead, they were, and you could use them as shot for yer
blunderbuss in an emergency, or flick 'em at the oncoming Frenchies like
shurikens. You could get a capon and two quarts of sack for a groat, and
still have change over for a knee-trembler at Mrs Quickly's Southwark
Sexerie & All-Night Stoat-on-a-Stick takeaway.
Oh what fun we had......

The best system was good old bartering! It's basically swapping something you've got for something you need. You don't have all that loose change weighing down your pockets!

Bugger bartering, if we was skint we'd wrap our groats in a sock and
whack a likely target over the napper and filch his purse.

Mind you, we clobbered Sir Francis Drake by mistake one night, God he
was annoyed. Still, after a couple of rums at the Cheapside Tavern he
soon saw the funny side, and we ended up only having the one hand
amputated. A real nautical gentleman, he was, always had a kind word fer
a sailor, and sometimes he even used goose-grease which saved a few
agonised screams, I can tell you.....

I still love thruppenny bits.

Can I use coinage from the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man?

The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies of the United Kingdom. They have their own legislative and taxation systems and issue their own banknotes and coins. These, in common with United Kingdom coins, bear the portrait of Her Majesty The Queen. However, they are only legal tender within the Crown Dependencies themselves.