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Conversation: 02.
English money
If you’re going to England you’ll naturally want to know something about English money. I expect you’ve been used to the decimal system, so English money will probably seem very strange to you at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.
There are three copper coins, the penny, the halfpenny, and the farthing. Then there’s the threepenny bit. The other coins are the sixpence, the shilling the two-shilling piece, and the half crown, which is worth two shillings and sixpence, or as we say, two and six.
Then there’s a ten-shilling note and a pound note in common use, and for larger sums there are five-pound notes, ten-pound notes, and so on. There’s no gold in circulation, so you hardly ever see a sovereign or half-sovereign.
You may often hear the term "guinea’ which stands for twenty-one shillings, although there’s no actual coin of this value.
There are four farthings in a penny, twelve pence in a shilling and twenty shillings in an pound, lf the price of a reel of cotton is fourpence, you hand over four pennies for it.
Similarly, you say twopence, threepence, and so on. If a stamp costs three-halfpence, you hand the clerk a penny and a halfpenny or three halfpennies, and he gives you a three-halfpenny stamp.
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