And for conversion to decimal, a shilling is 20 pence.
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:18:26 am PDT #5558 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Theodosia - Jul 09, 2003 6:18:42 am PDT #5559 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
IIRC, there was a major movement in the post-Revolution America to adopt anything-but-pounds as a monetary system. (Spanish silver dollars were very popular, as were francs -- but both empires were in major straits at the time. 'Dollars' was settled on as a monetary designation that upset the fewest people.)
Angus G - Jul 09, 2003 6:22:04 am PDT #5560 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Also there are other weird oddities you have to learn. A bob is a shilling, a crown is five shillings (I think?), so half a crown is 2s 6d. A farthing is 1/4 of a penny, and a ha'penny is self-explanatory.
The guinea is the weirdest of the lot though.
Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 6:22:15 am PDT #5561 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
And for conversion to decimal, a shilling is 20 pence.
Aaah! My brain!
t explodes
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:23:16 am PDT #5562 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Any kind soul care to explicate?
It had something to do with Plantagenet Palliser....
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:25:18 am PDT #5563 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Things I'm glad I was too young to have to deal with - I only know the shillings thing because they were still in circulation when i was a kid. Actually, I'm wrong - 1 shilling=5 new pence
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:25:49 am PDT #5564 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I thought that a shilling was 5p for purposes of decimal conversion? So still 20 shillings to the pound?
Jim - Jul 09, 2003 6:27:19 am PDT #5565 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
See my post, amych. I was talking rubbish, mislead because (deep breath) they changed the size of the 5p in the mid-80s, and brought out the 20p. So the 20p is now the size of the old 5p, which was interchangeable with the Shilling.
amych - Jul 09, 2003 6:28:30 am PDT #5566 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think we x-posted, Jim. No worries.
Betsy HP - Jul 09, 2003 6:29:47 am PDT #5567 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
I remember how much it confused me when I was reading E. Nesbit. And some time in my childhood I ordered a wooden doll from Pollack's and did my best to convert U.S. dollars to L.s.D and got it all wrong.