| From: | Fabian <fabian@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 22, 2001, 11:57 |
From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>> >There was no tenth part of a pound, until 1849 when the UK made > >the first tentative baby steps towards decimalisation. Note that > >the older (large sized) 10p coins are the same size and > >composition as the old florin. > > Are these 10p coins or 10d coins?A florin was 2 shillings, or 1/10 of a pound. It was about 1.5 times the weight of the current 50p piece. -- Fabian Don't you believe insanity claws?