currency conversion question

[hunnymonster]

12 pennies to the shilling young man.

40/- is 480d

It was all abolished before I took an interest in money but 1000 pennies is £4 3s 4d and 6s8d is exactly a third of a pound.

[KrazyIvan]

This is all starting to sound hexadecimal to me.

[Bogon07]

Also remember to factor in a conversion charge for the transaction if your are using PayPal on eBay or whatever.

[oldstoat]

"40/-" means 40 shillings and no pence, or 800 pennies. It's like non-Metric measuring, but for money! Whee! Heck, I even got the amount wrong-- it's not four pounds, it's three pounds, four shillings.

...and yet I still describe myself as "a bit over six foot" instead of "185 centimetres". Go figure.

40/- meant 40 shillings, or £2 or 480 pence, there being 12 pence to the shilling. Of course, up market goods were priced in guineas, each of which was 21 shillings.

Should I put this bit of historical detail in the "I'm so old..." thread?

[jar]

"40/-" means 40 shillings and no pence, or 800 pennies. It's like non-Metric measuring, but for money! Whee! Heck, I even got the amount wrong-- it's not four pounds, it's three pounds, four shillings.

...and yet I still describe myself as "a bit over six foot" instead of "185 centimetres". Go figure.

40/- meant 40 shillings, or £2 or 480 pence, there being 12 pence to the shilling. Of course, up market goods were priced in guineas, each of which was 21 shillings.

Should I put this bit of historical detail in the "I'm so old..." thread?

Or the I'm so confused thread.

[oldstoat]

Confused? We haven't got on to florins, half crowns and threepenny bits yet!
A decimal system is easier but I do miss the accretion of systems that he old sterling denominations represented. In its full form it went
1/2, 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24, 30, 60, 120, 240, 252 ( in pence from a half penny to a guinea)