Interesting page here http://copywriting.typepad.co.uk/copywriting/2008/08/that-will-be-25.html When I came out of the Royal Navy in 1966 my very first job was as a driver/salesman for an electrical and white goods retailer. They had a habit of pricing everything in guineas e.g. a TV set priced at 49½ guineas. Customers might have been fooled into thinking it cost lest than 50 GBP when in fact it cost 51 pounds 19 shillings and 6 pence. Those were the days :-) -- Kind regards Mike Clouston