[thechat] Money Slang

[Tony Crockford]

Also in old money:
Florin = 2 shillings
1/2 Crown = 2.5 shillings
Pound = 220 old pence
Guinea = 240 old pence (20 shillings)

No, not quite, your math is wrong.

A guinea was twenty-one shillings or 252 pennies

(£sd = pounds, shillings and dinaari - a reminder of our Roman
occupation days)

A Pound was twenty shillings or 240 pennies.

You also forgot the lovely tanner (six pennies) and the threepenny bit
(half a sixpence for mary poppins fans)

You're making me feel old.

I can remember when 10 bob notes where worth something (what can you get
for 50p now?) and we needed a serious halfpenny coin.

I can't remember the crown though (5 shillings) but have some
commemorative Churchill crowns that where struck to mark some
significant event!)

Anyone got any white fivers?

Tony
(I still think we were ripped off by decimalisation!)