The shilling, also called the 'bob' still exists in its decimal equivalent today - namely, the 5 pence piece. This set by COINCRAFT displays six incarnations of the British 'bob' down through the decades. These half-dozen coins add up to only 30 pence in decimal money, or 72 pennies in £sd. (Sounds better, doesn't it?)
(In the above scan, some of the coins seem a little 'toned', but that's not how they look 'in the flesh'. As you can see from their reverse sides below.)
4 comments:
I used to hate having the two-bob bits!
I gotta ask, JP - why?
'cause I was on the khazi all day!
Ah, right. There's a reason for the use of apostrophes in sentences like your first one, JP. Example: I used to hate having the 'two-bob bits'! I'd have got it immediately. Hope your botty's feeling better now.
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