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From: "Mrs Julie Goucher" <>
Subject: Fw: [Anglo-Italian] Fw: {not a subscriber} question
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:06:23 +0100


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From: "Fiona Hedges" <>
To: "Mrs Julie Goucher" <>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] Fw: {not a subscriber} question


Hi Sharon,
1p is one [new] penny, from the time we went decimal (1971?).
1d is the pre-decimal way of writing a penny. Stands for denarius (Latin for
a coin of a particular sort)
Each pound used to divide into 20 shillings, each shilling into 12
pennies/pence.
One pound, one shilling & one penny was written £1/1/1d, columns in ledgers
were arranged in L S D
One pound one shilling was either written £1/1/- or 1g (one guinea)
¼d was called a farthing, ie a fourth part of a penny
½d was called a halfpenny, pronounced [haypenny]

Maths was fun in the pre-decimal, pre-metric days - you got used to using
different bases, and it was far harder to mess up big-time - these days it
is all too easy, by inadvertantly moving a decimal point.

Hope this helps

Fiona

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mrs Julie Goucher" <>
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:40 PM
Subject: [Anglo-Italian] Fw: {not a subscriber} question


> Forwarded - Replied to the list please
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> From: "Sharon Terpe" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:42 AM
> Subject: {not a subscriber} question
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> Fiona:
>
> I know 1p is pence but I don't know what 4.d is.
> Would you might explaining?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Sharon
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