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# Speaking of money TJ...
Question for you brittish types:

Are a pound, quid and crown the same things? Do you have any more names for a pound sterling?

Edit: I'm trying to decipher some of what is said on Kitchen Nightmares...
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:39, archived)
# I think a crown is what you wear on your head
A pound and a quid are the same though. Although the plural of quid is "quid" not "quids".
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:41, archived)
# do you have...
20p pieces?
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:43, archived)
# Yes.
They're called 20p pieces.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:43, archived)
# yes
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:44, archived)
# We don't use crowns.
A crown used to be 5 shillings, back before we were civilised.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:41, archived)
# Also, according to wiki,
the big five pound coins collecters fawn over are called crowns.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:48, archived)
# NOOOOOOOOG!
If you're from just-south-of-the-border-ish.
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:44, archived)
# A crown is not a name for a pound
Before decimalisation we had a coin called half a crown which was worth what is now 12.5 pence.

Another term for a pound was a "nicker" although it's not commonly used now.
(Capitan Last night a BJ choked my wife, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:45, archived)
# So...
A crown would have been equivalent to 2 bits or a quarter, and a shilling equivalent to a nickel. When did you decimalize? (sounds violent)
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:50, archived)
# late 70s
early 80s
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:52, archived)
# ???????????????????
see below ;)
(Capitan Last night a BJ choked my wife, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:53, archived)
# ah
see i think we've got different dates

yours is the date that the new currency came in, i'm thinking about when the old currency was no longer legal.
the (new) half penny was the last to go and i didn't think that went til the early 80s
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:58, archived)
# But the new half penny
was a decimal coin.

It was the old sixpence (tanner)that stayed in circulation till 1980, but we still went decimal in 1971 ;)
(Capitan Last night a BJ choked my wife, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 1:03, archived)
# aye that's true
like i say, it depends when you count from, all i knew was that my sisters were aware of two currencies and they weren't born til 75
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 1:14, archived)
# 1971
Try this for pre decimal explanations

www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/economic/currency.htm
(Capitan Last night a BJ choked my wife, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:53, archived)
# Thank you
This helps... Seems much easier to remember now.
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 1:04, archived)
# You will hurt your head thinking like that.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:54, archived)
# I say, what ho?
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:51, archived)
# The ho on the corner...
sorry
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 0:55, archived)