1. With the introduction of decimal coinage in 1966, the phrase was dropped .. 2. Sir W . Brown was the author of a pamphlet entitled'Decimal Coinage . 3. The reverse of the decimal coinage was designed by Christopher Ironside, O . B . E .. 4. The blood of the martyrs seems hardly necessary to establish decimal coinage . " ( p . 259) 5. When Spain adopted decimal coinage in 1848, it used stars with different numbers of points as mint marks. 6. The reverse of the first issue of decimal coinage bore the coat of arms of Jersey as had previous coins. 7. He rose to fame when, in 1964, he won a competition to design the first decimal coinage for Australia. 8. The first decimal coinage of the monetary system entered into effect in 1850, having been officially agreed on in 1848. 9. The Newfoundland decimal coinage would have corresponded exactly to the dollar unit that was used in another British colony in South America. 10. However, in 1857 the decision was made to introduce a decimal coinage into Canada in conjunction with the US dollar unit.