Also, that the Sterling is the longest continuous use currency in the world.
The accounting system of dividing one pound into twenty shillings, a shilling into twelve pence, and a penny into four farthings was adopted[when?] from the livre carolingienne system introduced by Charlemagne to the Frankish Empire.[citation needed] The penny was abbreviated to “d”, from denarius, the Roman equivalent of the penny; the shilling to “s” from solidus (written with a long s, ſ, later evolving into a simple slash, /); and the pound to “L” (subsequently £) from Libra or Livre.[when?]
I’m out.
You’re quitting early. That’s not even half the fun of predecimal British currency. There is so much more:
Edit: Well, that didn’t work. Let me see, if I can fix it.
Edit2: or maybe it did? I can see the image in the browser, just not in the app. Here is the link, in case someone else can’t see it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/British_predecimal_currency.svg
SVG is a vector image format that probably isn’t compatible with every Lemmy client. Here’s a rasterized version from a screenshot:
