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Plot twist: when did the British pound, the Scottish shilling and the Welsh penny stop floating against each other and become a single currency? Was that before
by dbcurtis 2y ago
Plot twist: when did the British pound, the Scottish shilling and the Welsh penny stop floating against each other and become a single currency? Was that before 1750?
- 082349872349872 2y agoI don't know about those particular currencies uniting, but I'd thought the general l.s.d. breakdown went back to the Romans (and had also been popular in Continental Europe, before decimalisation there).