off topic-uk money?

[Martyn White]

>Other, less common, terms are a guinea, which was a pound and a shilling,
>a shilling being 1/20 of a pound, a sovereign, which was 8 pounds and 8
>shillings, and half-a-crown, which was of course half a sovereign.  There
>used to be a unit called the bishop, but this was banned in the mid-1800s.
>
        No, a crown was 5 shilling (25 new P) so therefore half-
a-crown was 2s and 6d or 12 and 1/2 pee.  Nit Pick Nit pick

Martyn

(old enough to remember Lsd)