Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney) wrote:

I find it useful (and frightening) to convert from decimal currency
back to old-fashioned pounds, shillings and pence; a small bar of
chocolate now costs twelve shillings (60p).

Surely such conversions have very little use? Unless, of course, you're
also converting your modern day wages into shillings.

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Simon

Brighton
ex-Westbury, ex-Aberystwyth