Three shillings--for the UK'ers

[Neil Ward]

Benjamin said:

<< the two-shilling piece (later 10p) was a florin, not a half-
crown.  The half-crown was 2/6 ('two and six') twelve pence in a 
shilling, so 2.5 shillings (12.5p) to the half crown (four crowns to 
a pound);  >>

Oh yes, you're right.  That was a mixture of being too young to 
remember that and being too old to remember that.  

It wasn't the LSD, I swear


Neil