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To: mylife

“d” means “pence,” I think.


4 posted on 05/06/2021 10:56:37 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Kinda like nail sizes.


8 posted on 05/06/2021 10:59:12 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Steely Tom

“d” means “pence,” I think


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.


29 posted on 05/06/2021 11:11:49 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Yes, it does. It stood for denarius. “Penny” is still a standard of measure used for nails in the US, abbreviated as “d”.


33 posted on 05/06/2021 11:15:10 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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Yes, and by my calculations, 1 pence from 1913 equals 68.5 cents of today’s American dollars. So about $6.85 for the “Boiled Cod Hollandaise”.


50 posted on 05/06/2021 11:50:08 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Steely Tom

It did when I lived in Londontowne

1985


90 posted on 05/06/2021 1:54:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio weak)
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