alister wrote:
> (that said I don't want to go back to pre decimal coinage)

I loved it, it was so quaint and esoteric. And then i looked forward to
my first visit to England at the age of twelve -- and they had had the
gall to go decimal shortly before. Oh, the disappointment. I still have
and treasure some paperbacks that give the price in shillings and pence
on their covers.

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