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To: I am Richard Brandon

rolling_stone pointed out that Kenya used pennies before they started printing and minting money.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306755/posts?page=1029#1029

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_East_African_shilling
(If we can trust the sources here.)

Fresh Wind pointed out a couple of other options for why the 7s 6d might have been used on a legit Kenyan doc:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2307402/posts?page=336#336

“It’s quite possible that British (shillings/pence) currency was used interchangably with the local (shillings/cents) currency.

It’s also possible that there was some confusion in the printing of these forms (they may well have been printed in Mother England).”


6,255 posted on 08/04/2009 12:29:11 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try BIGOTS.))
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To: SeattleBruce

Sorry “Kenya used pennies” = Kenya used cents (before 1966).


6,258 posted on 08/04/2009 12:31:27 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try BIGOTS.))
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To: SeattleBruce; razbinn
“It’s quite possible that British (shillings/pence) currency was used interchangably with the local (shillings/cents) currency.

It’s also possible that there was some confusion in the printing of these forms (they may well have been printed in Mother England).”

Yes, as I've said before there are just too many possibilities to come to any safe conclusion. One has to get a another certificate to compare with.

6,276 posted on 08/04/2009 1:05:43 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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