Sesame Squirrel1d ago
YO! Bacchus! $218 in 1964 = $2,300+ now (we'll ignore the £ vs $ issue) #TVMysteries #GeorgeGently
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@SesameSquirrel

I think it was about $2-4 to the £ back then. (A dollar originally meant a coin worth 5 shillings, 20 shillings in a pound, so for many years £1 = $4)

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Show threadSesame Squirrel1d ago
@klu9 the whole shillings / guinea / criwn thing always made my head hurt and me run screaming in the other direction #TVMysteries #GeorgeGently
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@SesameSquirrel

The benefit was supposedly a plethora of ways to divide by even numbers without ending up in fractions.

Never had to deal with, the change to "new money" (pounds and pence) happened 6-7 years before I moved there.

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