The novelist Anthony Burgess once wrote about the convenience of the old British system of pence, shillings, pounds, and guineas: the pound was evenly divisible

The novelist Anthony Burgess once wrote about the convenience of the old British system of pence, shillings, pounds, and guineas: the pound was evenly divisible to a value in pence if not shillings by 2, 3, 5, and guinea also by 7.