wrote:

A Manx 50p note, you said? They had subunit banknotes? Interesting,
indeed. The only other nation that I know of with subunits in
bankotes was the 50-cent note in the Bahamas.

I guess you must be too young to remember the 10 shilling (= 50p) note in
Britain.

This was the 10s. note of 1955:
http://www.thebanknotestore.com/brit...and/p368cf.jpg

and this the rather beautiful design of 1966-70 before decimalisation
replaced it with the 50p coin:
http://www.collector-tower.com/bankn...bp_10s_66f.jpg
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Richard J.
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