On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:01:07 +0200
Axel Berger  wrote:

> 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.

 Up until the late 1980s there was a restaurant in Cambridge with
the prices posted in shillings and pence.

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