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What does '8d' mean in 'The 8d fine he paid seems to have been worth it'?
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∙ 17y ago
The lower case 'd' is the abbreviation for 'Pence' or 'Penny' in the UK. Sounds stupid, but here in the Colonies we use the same abbreviation for nails that are sized by the 'pennyweight' or 1/20 ounce. 8d means eight pennies (after the Roman unit denarius). Up until 1971, Britain used a different monetary system than today. The largest unit was one pound sterling, this was subdivided into 240 pence or pennies. These in turn were subdivided into halfpennies or ha'pennies which themselves were split into farthings. If one looks at the coins (in the 1950s) there was a sixpence (6 pennies) a shilling (12 pennies), a florin (24 pennies) and a crown (30 pennies). A guinea was one pound and one shilling. As a rough guide, a British farm labourer in the late Victorian period would earn about eighteen shillings a week, usually with free accommodation. Before decimalization the currency of Great Britain was as follows: 1 pound = 20 shillings of 12 pence each. In other words, as already said, there were 240 pence to the pound. The abbreviations used were as follows: Pound -
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