http://obsoleteskills.wikispot.org/Making_change_in_shillings_and_penceRecent Changes of the page "Making change in shillings and pence" on Obsolete Skills Wiki.en-us http://obsoleteskills.wikispot.org/Making_change_in_shillings_and_pence2008-03-10 20:09:40 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for Making change in shillings and pence<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 22: </td> <td> Line 22: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> "Me and Billy standin there with twelve-and-half p." ... just doesn't have the same ring to it. </td> <td> <span>+</span> "Me and Billy standin there with twelve-and<span>-a</span>-half p." ... just doesn't have the same ring to it. </td> </tr> </table> </div> http://obsoleteskills.wikispot.org/Making_change_in_shillings_and_pence2008-03-10 20:08:48 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for Making change in shillings and pence<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 12: </td> <td> Line 12: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>- Then, describe the skill! Tell us how to perform the task. Photos really help!</span> </td> <td> <span>+ It was like doing any other day-to-day arithmetic in non-decimalized units, like you do with time or English system volume or weight measures.<br> + <br> + 12 pence made a shilling, 20 shillings made a pound. Prices of items were given as pounds/shillings/pence, using the pound sign, and "d" for pence. So if something cost 2/4d (two shillings, four pence), and somebody paid for it with a pound, they got, uhhhh, 17 shillings and 8 pence in change. Somebody who actually did it all the time can probably comment on how proficient you became at carrying 12s and 20s in your head.<br> + <br> + When they decimalized, the "new penny" (abbpreviated "p") became 1/100 of the existing pound, so many of the old coins could continue to circulate as some number of new pence. The shilling became 5p, for instance. Unfortunately, they had a very popular "half crown" coin (2/6d), which came out to 12 1/2 p.<br> + <br> + Old British coinage had a huge number of denominations, with a large number of special terms for them. For instance the aforementioned "crown" = 5 shillings, so that a half crown was 2/6d.<br> + <br> + Cue Van Morrison:<br> + <br> + "Me and Billy standin there with twelve-and-half p." ... just doesn't have the same ring to it.</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> http://obsoleteskills.wikispot.org/Making_change_in_shillings_and_pence2008-02-19 05:02:47JasonAller <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for Making change in shillings and pence<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 1: </td> <td> Line 1: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <span>+ ||&lt;bgcolor='#E0E0FF'&gt;'''Field'''||<br> + || Using Currency ||<br> + ||&lt;bgcolor='#E0E0FF'&gt;'''Went Obsolete'''||<br> + || 1971 ||<br> + ||&lt;bgcolor='#E0E0FF'&gt;'''Made Obsolete By'''||<br> + || The British went to decimal based currency ||<br> + ||&lt;bgcolor='#E0E0FF'&gt;'''Knowledge Assumed'''||<br> + || basic mathematics ||<br> + ||&lt;bgcolor='#E0E0FF'&gt;'''When useful'''||<br> + || When reading history books ||<br> + <br> + Then, describe the skill! Tell us how to perform the task. Photos really help!<br> + <br> + [[Include(Seed)]]<br> + <br> + [[Include(PhotoRequest)]]<br> + <br> + == Other references ==<br> + <br> + * [wiki:wikipedia:"Coins_of_the_pound_sterling" Wikipedia article on pre 1971 English Coins]<br> + <br> + [[Comments]]</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div>