Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL the pound was named because 240 Sterlings (pennies) weighed a pound.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1313file-text
arrow-up1313external-linkTIL the pound was named because 240 Sterlings (pennies) weighed a pound.en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoIs metric £ not counted as a new currency? Seems like you have to go through a lot of the same efforts as you would moving to a new currency.
minus-squareChris@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-23 days agoNo, because the £ didn’t change, it was just divided up differently. A pre-decimal £ is the same as a decimal £. You could technically still pay in Shillings until they redesigned the 5p.
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoMy grandparents still called them shillings sometimes, but been a long time since I’ve heard that! I’m only old enough to remember the old 10 and 50p
minus-squareChris@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoI vaguely recall the decimal ha’penny. I am old.
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoYeah, to be fair it wur’all fields back then, far as the eye
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIn Austria we also had the ‘Schilling’ before the Euro I’m still not sure how this 2 currencies are connected - at least by name…
Is metric £ not counted as a new currency? Seems like you have to go through a lot of the same efforts as you would moving to a new currency.
No, because the £ didn’t change, it was just divided up differently.
A pre-decimal £ is the same as a decimal £.
You could technically still pay in Shillings until they redesigned the 5p.
My grandparents still called them shillings sometimes, but been a long time since I’ve heard that!
I’m only old enough to remember the old 10 and 50p
I vaguely recall the decimal ha’penny. I am old.
Yeah, to be fair it wur’all fields back then, far as the eye
In Austria we also had the ‘Schilling’ before the Euro
I’m still not sure how this 2 currencies are connected - at least by name…