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You gained pounds (lemmy.world)
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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I watched a video (Invidious) yesterday detailing the type of coins they used before 1971 in the UK and its empire, and it was actually insane.

1 Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pennies, with coins for 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 6 pennies, 1, 2, 2.5, 5 Shillings and banknotes for the Pounds, and each of these coins had 5 or more different names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd

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