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Jackie...

Thjat looks very interesting Splodge, thanks.

books

Ali...

Having found three obvious errors on the list of old British coins,
trust any of the information without cross-checking.

pandamonium...

Those were the answers I came up with but I didn't see that page earlier. I
looked up old coinage on web-search. What were the errors you found?

Ali...

Eight crowns to a pound - should be four - half-crowns (much more common)
were 8 to the pound.

A tanner (6d) was 2.5p (and remained in circulation as such for a long
time) not 2.49999p

Threepenny bit was 1.25p not 1.24999p

OK, those last two are just rounding errors, but how did he make them,
especially as he has two tanners = i shilling = 5p

pandamonium...

I just did the old money quiz on there. I had to cheat and look things up
as I didn't know all of the terms in use back then. I mean I wasn't even
born! There are some groaners in there. Especially numbers 7 and 8!

Ali...

Most of that quiz goes back to when Łsd was the only money we knew.

Never seen number 7 before though.

pandamonium...

It's one of the ones I actually can remember! I think it was abolished in
1976 or 1978 or something. I think that clue was written by a Cockney, or
someone who couldn't pronounce 'H' anyway.

Gareth...

Nah, it doesn't list the Nobel Prize winners. ;-)

I do four crosswords every Sunday morning and have put Wikipedia in my
'Links' toolbar which seems to give me most of what I need.

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