On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 2:48:38 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
>> Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to
PM> LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
PM> Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, ..
Yeah but they're all nicknames. If you pick up a pound coin it says on it
(not unreasonably) "One Pound". If you pick up a ten pence piece it's
nicely self-explanatory and says "Ten Pence", and has a convenient "10" in
numerals, too.
Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say "Nickel",
"Dime", "Quarter" with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those
of us not brought up in the USA, even if you're aware that one's 5c and
the other 10c, there's no obvious way to get from the names nickel and
dime to their monetary values.
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