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You'd prefer it in (checks internets) Pounds, Shillings and Pence? OK, but not very useful to the rest of us.
by SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
You'd prefer it in (checks internets) Pounds, Shillings and Pence?
OK, but not very useful to the rest of us.
- Someone 4y agoPre-decimal pounds, shillings and pence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd), with a few guineas (21 shillings, while a pound was 20 shillings) thrown in for fun. That would make sure nobody alive would understand it.
- euroderf 4y agoI read somewhere that internationally-oriented auction houses ask & take bids in guineas so that bidders based in _all_ currencies are equally inconvenienced, and none is favored.