Sentence examples for decimal coinage from inspiring English sources
(Even decimal coinage happened eventually).
(Trollope's Prime Ministerial hero is obsessed with decimal coinage).
Decimal coinage was introduced during the Hincks Morin administration.
American statesman, diplomat, and financial expert who helped plan the U.S. decimal coinage system.
He declared that the universal introduction of decimal coinage, measures, and weights would be only a question of time.
The Duke also had an enthusiasm which is represented in the novel as a somewhat cranky obsession – the introduction of decimal coinage.
The government was shopping for a uniform system of weights and measures, had a President (Washington) and a Secretary of State (Jefferson) who were favorably disposed to the metric idea, and had just departed from Old World convention by introducing decimal-based coinage.
When these countries adopted the decimal system for their coinage, a local name was in several cases substituted for the term peso.
Stevin declared that using decimals was so important that the universal introduction of decimal weights, measures and coinage was only a matter of time.
The coinage was decimalized in February 1971.
The decimal system, which has already conquered the coinage and led to the metrification of measures of weight and distance, suits the modern world better.
