Who remembers (and misses) the old money?

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Bill Walker

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Come on you FOCs, I miss the interesting old money. It had character and a certain charm..... didn't it?

Just as the pound had nicknames—e.g., a quid—so a shilling was a bob. A single record might cost six bob [30p]. Ten shillings [50p] was ten bob. £1 10s [£1.50] could be written as 30s and said as thirty bob. Coins took on these and other nicknames: the 3d was a threppence or thruppence, the 6d (sixpence) was a tanner, two shillings two bob, and the large silver coin worth two and six (2s 6d) was half a crown or a half-crown. Two pence (2d) was known as tuppence, and fractions of a penny were known as the ha’penny (half-penny) and farthing (quarter of a penny, phased out in 1960). Something costing just pennies—e.g., 4d—would be known as four penn’orth, short for “four pennies worth.”
There were several ways of writing shillings and pence, so eight and six could be 8s 6d or 8/6 or even 8/6d.

More interesting than this multiples of ten boring crap. :)
 
Bill Walker said:
Come on you FOCs, I miss the interesting old money. It had character and a certain charm..... didn't it?

Just as the pound had nicknames—e.g., a quid—so a shilling was a bob. A single record might cost six bob [30p]. Ten shillings [50p] was ten bob. £1 10s [£1.50] could be written as 30s and said as thirty bob. Coins took on these and other nicknames: the 3d was a threppence or thruppence, the 6d (sixpence) was a tanner, two shillings two bob, and the large silver coin worth two and six (2s 6d) was half a crown or a half-crown. Two pence (2d) was known as tuppence, and fractions of a penny were known as the ha’penny (half-penny) and farthing (quarter of a penny, phased out in 1960). Something costing just pennies—e.g., 4d—would be known as four penn’orth, short for “four pennies worth.”
There were several ways of writing shillings and pence, so eight and six could be 8s 6d or 8/6 or even 8/6d.

More interesting than this multiples of ten boring crap. :)
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I have loads of old money in my collection, apart from hammered silver that is nearly a thousand years old I quite like the more modern stuff too.

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Bill Walker said:
Come on you FOCs, I miss the interesting old money. It had character and a certain charm..... didn't it?

Just as the pound had nicknames—e.g., a quid—so a shilling was a bob. A single record might cost six bob [30p]. Ten shillings [50p] was ten bob. £1 10s [£1.50] could be written as 30s and said as thirty bob. Coins took on these and other nicknames: the 3d was a threppence or thruppence, the 6d (sixpence) was a tanner, two shillings two bob, and the large silver coin worth two and six (2s 6d) was half a crown or a half-crown. Two pence (2d) was known as tuppence, and fractions of a penny were known as the ha’penny (half-penny) and farthing (quarter of a penny, phased out in 1960). Something costing just pennies—e.g., 4d—would be known as four penn’orth, short for “four pennies worth.”
There were several ways of writing shillings and pence, so eight and six could be 8s 6d or 8/6 or even 8/6d.

More interesting than this multiples of ten boring crap. :)
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The advantage of the old system and 240 pennies to a pound was that you could split a bill 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 ways, whereas it's only 2, 4, 5 & 10 with decimal coinage.
 
Barcon said:
I'd only just learned all this money malarkey and they changed it to decimal.
I almost kicked my abacus across the room and shit in my inkwell.
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You'd only just learned about money, yet you had an inkwell.
You probably remember florins and farthings.
I'll bet a guinea your an old fuck..

Like Misty and me.
 
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