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
LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, ..
The US has nothing on the UK here.
Paul
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Paul Makepeace
On 02/07/2003 at 14:48 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
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
LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, ..
The US has
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
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote:
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,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote:
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
Quarter Dollar. Pretty obvious. The dime only says dime and I can't
remember nickel.
of us
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Iain Tatch wrote:
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.
You don't have any US change handy, do you? :)
penny ($0.01): says ONE CENT
nickel ($0.05): says FIVE CENTS
dime
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 3:49:35 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM What is your point? That the US currency is failing somehow because it
PM doesn't explicitly put its cents value on its coinage?
No, the point was that although there are dozens of slang words for
various monetary amounts in
On 26/06/2003 at 10:19 -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
This is the first time I meet a monetary system that is not based on
the relation
100 - 50 - 20 - 10 - 5 - 1 - 0.50 - 0.25 - 0.10 - 0.01
As other people have mentioned, although not explicitly, the British
pound (and the Euro)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
As other people have mentioned, although not explicitly, the British
pound (and the Euro) have different sub-unit currency subdivisions,
ie:
100 50 20 10 5 2 1
as opposed to the US model:
100 50 25 10 5 1
horrific. I don't
