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| raynerd:
--- Quote from: andyf on January 07, 2012, 07:07:05 AM --- --- Quote from: DMIOM on January 07, 2012, 06:58:13 AM ---which I have occasionally forgotten to remove from a shirt pocket, wash very well, and look like new once ironed. Andy --- End quote --- :offtopic: as do ipod touches if you`r lucky....without the ironing needed. --- End quote --- |
| trevoratxtal:
What size is a pound one asked! Well it started about 100 X 50 mm X thin (.05mm ish) It got smaller and smaller by size and changed material to brass, now it is a little washer before the hole is punched, the two pound one is a washer with a plug in the middle to fill the hole. As inflation continues the hole will fall out. :Doh: In fact it is now over a pound to purchase a penny washer, and we had 320 in the old pound, I think. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: The value is so small (when I was a boy I could purchase 20 pints of beer for one pound) but always had change from a pound as I fell over around the tenth pint. Now one pound does not even get one a half pint of lemonade without the lemon. I would post pictures of the pound to compare sizes but I cannot find one even though I put 20 in my pocket! :D :D :D :D :D Ps I have evidence to show that my Grandfather purchased a house for just ten of them, but they wassss Biggg then. pounds that is! Happy New Year to all you good folk Trev |
| modeng200023:
240 to the £1 John |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: modeng200023 on January 08, 2012, 03:00:38 AM ---240 to the £1 John --- End quote --- Indeed it was 240 old pence to the pound before the British currency became 'dismal' or decimal( or both) and 100 new pence replaced it all. It was 12 old pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to make one pound. Cheers up, I work in Euros as well. Spain changed from the peseta to the Euro but still quotes peseta prices in their supermarkets. Somehow they don't trust the Euro to last. We sort of belong to the European community- le Marche Commun et la bas but don't. It was all sort of going to be wonderful and we Brits were going to be able to cross and recross Europe and Britain without barriers-- and all that Jazz. Money was supposed to flow without the percentages for exchange between French francs to Belgian francs and so on. Fine, if you have a 'Horse's collar' of Euros, you can buy in most shops etc but you cannot write a cheque/check drawn on a (say) French bank and use it( say) in a Spanish country. If anyone is baffled by all this- I'm not surprised. |
| Ned Ludd:
On the subject of laundering money, Bank of England notes (note, England not Britain) iron very well because they are not paper but Linen. With the way money is going it will soon be cheaper to make a shirt from sewn together bank notes than material. Thinking of value, I saw a ten bob note for sale in a collectors shop for £15, talk about inflation. Ned PS for you foreigners out there who don't understand what proper money is/was, ten bob was ten shillings or half a Pound. :wave: |
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