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Pre-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 w
by Someone 4y ago
Pre-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.