| 21 English money |
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If you're going to England you'll naturally want to know something about English
money. I expect you've been used to the decimal system, so English money will probably
semm very strange to you at first, but you'll soon used to it. Thare are three copper coins, the peany, the halfpenny, and the farthing. Then there's the three-penny bit. The other coins are the six-pence, the shilling, the two-shilling piece, and the half-crown, which is worth two shillings and sixpence, or as we say, two and six. Then there's a ten-shilling note and a pound note in common use and for larger sums there are five-pound notes, ten-pound notes and so on. There's no gold in circulation, so you hardly ever see a sovereign or half-sovereign. You may often hear the term "guines", which stands for twenty-one shillings, although there's no actual coin of this value. There are four farthings in a penny, twelve pence in a shilling and twenty shillings in a pound. If the price of a reel you hand over four pennies for it. Similarly, you say twopence, threepence and so on. If a stamp costs three-halfpence, you hand the clerk a penny and a halfpenny or three half-pennies and he gives you a three-halfpenny stamp. |
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