Dont forget the farthing = one quarter of one penny and the guinea = one
pound and one shilling.
Quite a few years after the change to decimal currency there was a landlord
of a pub in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, who continued to price in old money
and still accepted old money and whether one paid in old or new money would
still give change in £sd - dont know how long he managed to keep it going
for.
I still have difficulty making payments in decimal currency and am sure that
I could easily revert to £sd.
David Railton
-----Original Message-----
From: STANLEY ROBERTS [mailto:skrimhe@btinternet.com]
Sent: 21 November 2004 17:07
To: WLS-ANGLESEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [ANG] Conversion time....
Ha! You are all forgetting the big one!
I remember the quote "Hey, he must be worth a few Sovs".
Translation - He must be worth a few bob.
Further translation - He must be worth a bit of money!!
Yes, the Sovereign. Gold in colour and in form the Sovereign was worth £5.
£2. £1. and a half sovereign worth ten shillings. The most common were the
pound sovereign and the half. I know that there was a new minting of the
sovereign in 1937 to commemorate my birthday- or was it that my birthday
happened to fall in the same year that they minted the new sovereigns. Can`t
remember which now.
To put the whole discussion back into listing etiquette, my Grandfather
Walter Wynn Roberts 1879-1965 had a Gold Sovereign on his pocket watch
fob!!!
Cheers, Keith Roberts.
pamela riggs <pamriggs10(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
What about the Florin= two shillings
Copper= One penny
and don't forget your woggle and neckerchief!
Pam
From: Len Moxon
Reply-To: WLS-ANGLESEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: WLS-ANGLESEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [ANG] Conversion time....
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:07:58 -0400
Then there was the slang, Alwyn.
Quid=pound
Bob=shilling
Tanner=sixpence
I must have forgotten others.
Do you remember Bob a Job week in cubs and scouts? Great fundraiser.
Len
On Saturday, November 20, 2004, at 09:39 PM, Alwyn ap Huw wrote:
Woops, a slight mistake here. It should read:
Crown: Five shillings in a CROWN, four crowns in a pound
-----Original Message-----
From: Alwyn ap Huw [mailto:alwyn@netbreeze.co.uk]
Sent: 20 November 2004 22:33
To: WLS-ANGLESEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: RE: [ANG] Conversion time....
Before 1971 there were 240 pennies / pence to the pound. Other currency
amounts were
Crown: Five shillings in a pound, four crowns in a pound
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