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Yes, this happened - Operation Mincemeat: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/operation_mincemeat http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/operation_mincemeat

• DanBC 12y ago
  A few people mention operation mincemeat. > letter from Ernest Whitley Jones, joint general manager of Lloyds Bank,[7] demanding payment of an overdraft of £79 19s 2d (£79.96). This amount of money seems incorrect. A £56 ring would cost £2000 today, thus a £79 overdraft would not be £79 today, or someone would not have a > £2000 overdraft. I do not edit wikipedia.
  • phpnode 12y ago
    That's a conversion to the decimal amount, not a conversion to today's equivalent.
    • DanBC 12y ago
      That feels like an odd thing to do, especially for international readers who won't know or care about UK decimalisation in 1972(?)
      • phpnode 12y ago
        agreed, if I was more socially responsible I'd create a wikipedia account and edit it.
      • dragonwriter 12y ago
        Its not really odd, its a natural way to convert a quantity stated in three units that have no obvious relation even to each other to someone unfamiliar with the pre-decimal system into a quantity stated in a single unit.