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Terry Boon terry@counterfactual.org
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:18:39 +0000


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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Gordon Oliver wrote:
> 
> >  Or am I thinking too much like an American, and some
> > currencies could actually be held in the amount of 3/16, for example?
> 
> probably ;-)
> 
> some at least used to have divisions of 200 (for example, there used to be - and perhaps still
> is - a halfpence in Great Britain...)

There was a halfpenny in the UK, but it was abolished in the
early-to-mid 1980s.

Before decimalisation (1971, IIRC, but it was well before my time), we
had four farthings to the penny, twelve pennies to the shilling, and
twenty shillings to the pound.

Best wishes,
Terry
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Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK
terry@counterfactual.org 
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