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If the UK are so inclined, they should return to the old currency measures of pounds, shillings, pennies, half pennies, farthings, thruppence, sixpence, florin,
by quitit 4y ago
If the UK are so inclined, they should return to the old currency measures of pounds, shillings, pennies, half pennies, farthings, thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crowns and crowns.
1 pound = 20 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pennies
1 penny = 4 farthings
3 pence* = 1 thruppence
6 pence = 1 sixpence
2 shillings = 1 florin
5 shillings = 1 crown
(so 2 shillings + 2 thruppence = 1 half crown)
Bless.
*pence = plural of penny.
- musicale 4y ago1 pound = 240d divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, etc.. And it's good for practicing arithmetic. ;-) [The Wizarding Currency of the Harry Potter series was presumably a parody of this but based on 1g = 17s*29k = 493k; 17 and 29 being somewhat less useful divisors, though in practice one could presumably divide physical quantities by 18 or 30 and price on the 17 or 29 scale. 29 does have the occasionally useful property of being the number of days in February in a leap year.]
- inkyoto 4y agoThruppence is a somewhat inconvenient coin to pay with at a toll booth from a vehicle travelling at the 133619.661 furlongs per fortnight speed. It helps to travel prepared and dispense the required number of thruppence into little cloth bags beforehand – to throw them at the cashier without having to slow down.