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From: "Mary Longman" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Pounds, shillings and pennies
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:50:17 -0500
References: <20021103081507.EAEA420103@mercury.is.co.za>


Help. time is passing me by - I too remember Tickey the clown!

It doesn't seem so long ago, yet it sems like a lifetime ago.
mary

"tickey" was also the name of a dwarf clown in S.A.
With compliments
Beulah

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>From: "Glynis Millett-Clay" <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: [ZA] Pounds, shillings and pennies
>Date: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 6:15 am
>

>I remember a "quid" as well.
>
>What does that mean - can anyone remember?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lehmkuhl" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 2:43 AM
>Subject: [ZA] Pounds, shillings and pennies
>
>
>£.s.d. = Pounds, shillings and pennies
>£.s.d. = Librae, Solidi, Denarii
>
>A Denarii or Denarius was a Roman silver coin
>
>Before 14 February 1961, South Africans used £.s.d.
>
>Twenty shillings made 1 £
>Twelve pennies made a shilling
>A Half-crown was worth "two and six" (2 shillings and 6 pennies)
>A Crown was 5 shillings
>
>Three pennies were called a "ticky"
>Six pennies were called "sixpence"
>A shilling was called a "bob"
>A guinea was one pound and one shilling
>
>Some of the Afrikaans words were:
>
>A "oortjie" was a "kwartpennie"
>A "stuiwer" was a "halfpennie"
>A "oulap" was slang for a penny
>A "twalap" was slang for two pennies
>A "daalder" was one shilling and six pennies or "one and six"
>
>The term "daalder" came from the old riksdaalder, introduced by the
>Dutch
>at the Cape.
>A "riksdaalder" was worth 15 cents.
>
>The Guinea was used as the basis on which the professionals (doctors,
>dentists, lawyers, etc) based their rates.
>
>For 1 penny you could buy 4 nickerballs.
>A "one and six" could buy a big packet of Motto sweets (those sweets
>that
>had sayings on them such as "I love you" or "Stay with me".
>
>On 14 February 1961, Decimal Dan (played by Barry WIEHAHN) introduced
>South
>Africans to the current South African currency (Rand and cents; 1 Rand =
>100 cents), with a little jingle, composed by Dan HILL and Jimmy
>RAYSOND.
>[This was before I was born, so I only know the words from a copy of the
>Afrikaans jingle -
>"Daan Desimaal, die rand-sent-man, Gee jou sente vir pennies net waar hy
>kan"]
>
>For one pound (£ 1.- 0 - 0) you got R2,00
>A shilling got you 10 cents
>10 shillings were equal to R1,00
>A tickey got you 2½ cents
>A sixpence was 5 cents
>A Daalder = 15 cents
>A Half-crown = 25 cents
>A Crown = 50 cents
>__________/\/*******\/\______
>Anne Lehmkuhl http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/
>
>
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