Pounds, Shillings and Pence

[Lynn_M]

How did our pre-1971 monetary system evolve?

[Ethel]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/campaigns/eunion/cesterling.xml

[Ethel]

Why tonyted?

Did you want me to convolute an answer and pretend I know all about it?

[Ethel]

How right you are, tonyted.

But having left school many moons ago, I thought I'd have a go at the modern way of answering test questions.

Google, print, hand in.

Do I get a gold star?

[shammydodger]

They don't give gold stars anymore, Ethel. Just a quickie in the store cupboard. Gold stars are thought to be elitist and likely to damage the psyche of your common thicko.

[Ethel]

Never got a quickie in the store cupboard, either.

I have been damaged for life.

[mike b]

I have always thought that we could have a good old British compromise by adopting the Euro and dividing it into 20 shillings of 12 pence each...

[Lynn_M]

Hi Tonyted

I'm not as clever with computers as I'd like to be, or else I WOULD search the web, as I often do. But for that one, I wasn't sure where to look. And I certainly don't know how to post one of those red answers that Ethel has posted; the ones you can click on and move to another site. What are you trying to do, trying to put Answerbank out of business by discoraging people from asking questions?

Thank you Ethel. I'm actually trying to find out when each of our individual coins were introduced and although the Telegraph site was very interesting and answered some of my questions, some remain unanswered. It might be worth checking out the 'coins for sale' section on ebay to learn a bit more. Thanks again.

It's a shame that Pounds, Shillings and Pence was done away with, since it served us so well for hundreds of years.

[Lynn_M]

Can't give you a gold star Ethel, but please accept those three red ones from me.

[shaneystar2]

Some good info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_coinage#P re-decimal_system
You have to scroll down and click on the individual coinage etc.

[maxximus]

it all makes perfect sense (parts 1 & 2) roger waters.