[hanamizu]

“d” means “pence,” I think

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The ‘d’ still lives on with our nail sizes...
The ‘/’stands for shilling. 12 d to the /; 20/ to the £.
At the time the £ was worth close to $5 so a shilling was worth about 25¢ to get an idea of the prices back then.

[Steely Tom]

Perhaps restaurant dining was much more expensive back then than it is today. Perhaps it was only an upper-class thing, and members of the lower classes simply couldn’t do it.