To: Olog-hai
I’m looking forward to a return to pounds, shillings and pence...
12 shillings to the pound. 20 pence to the shilling...
7 posted on
12/07/2019 7:15:05 AM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
It’s the other way around; 12p to one shilling and 20 shillings (240p) to £1.
10 posted on
12/07/2019 7:16:52 AM PST by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Reminds me also of the Biblical shekel, which was divided into 20 gerahs.
13 posted on
12/07/2019 7:19:34 AM PST by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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