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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Identity Crisis: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Middy Seafort: [qb]I assume he could add stuff, but he was refering to the currency system of shillings, half-farthings, and two pences (the old system before the Euro) as a joke.[/qb][/QUOTE]I think you mean before decimalisation, which was in 1970/71, as we still haven't joined the Euro. The old system was slightly confusing but boiled down to: 1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence (so 1 shilling = 12 pence) When we moved to the decimal system the pound stayed the same, but we replaced shillings and old pence with new pence so that 1 pound = 100 pence. And that's the system we use today. A farthing was a quarter of an old penny and was withdrawn from use in 1961. I don't think there was ever a half-farthing. Any other funny terms (such as florin or crown) are just amounts of shillings or pence (2 shillings for the florin, 5 shillings for the crown) and aren't any different to those strange US terms dime and nickel. :p Oh and to get really confusing there was also a guinea which was one pound and one shilling. But since 1813 that's only been used as the amount or prize money in horse races. And I typed all this for a system that died a few yars before I was born? I must be mad. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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