-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ros Jarvis Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OEL] Money Values 240 d to the old ? As soon as I saw it I said to myself - there were 240 pennies (not pence) to the old ? - not 120. When you have to sit and learn money etc tables by rote you do not forget them. And it had to be by rote because there is no working this stuff out from basic principles. So I still know without looking up that there are 8 furlongs to a mile and 1760 yards to a mile as well as 240 pennies to a ?!! Don't forget the tanner - 6d; the two bob or florin 2 shillings; the half a dollar or half a crown or 2 shillings and sixpence. Plus the thruppence or three penny bit, the farthing and the ten bob note. All of which I have secreted away if I could only remember where .... Ros ----- Original Message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Saturday at 5 am Edenbridge Kent Earlier coinage included the half penny oka 'aypenny box.please' Farvin box if yer woz skint !-- in the sweet shop -- liquirice for chewing sucking Multilayer candy balls and aniseed balls to suck. Tuppence for a Mars Bar Penny for a Milky Way. lol Alan Dell The rare Silver tanner [ 6d] One for the Christmas Pudding.