Actually The pound florin and shilling were the beginnings of a decimal
coinage. It was completed with the replacement of the old penny with new
pence.
Twenty shillings to the pound 10 Florins to the pound now each of those
coins were
directly replaced with the 5 np and 10np coins respectively. The Brits.
decided to
go decimal almost 200 years ago. They just did it very gradually. (And in
fits and
starts).
At 10:05 AM 8/22/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > >> Too inconvenient. Do you have any idea how many Angstroms there are to
> > >> a Farthing?
> > >
> > >Neither me nor units(1) has ever heard of farthing. But it does know
> > >furlong, which is about 2e+12 Angstroms.
> >
> > A farthing is an old unit of (British) currency. 1/6 of a penny, I believe
> > (it was before my time).
> >
>
>Nah, it was four farthings to a penny
>
>My father used to groan, to the tune of 'Rule Britannia':
>
>Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob,
>Three make eighteenpence and four two bob
>
>How's that for a totally logical system, and I'm not even going to mention
>florins, half-crowns, crowns, zaks, threepenny bits, quids and guineas, am I?
>Nor even ponies, monkeys and tons.
>
>John Coyle
>(who has now had to work his mind around four different currency changes, two
>goes at metrication, and one at decimalization)
>Brisbane, Australia
>
>
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