pence

My favorite is the McClure Multiplying Punch, which had a table-driven mechanical multiplier for pounds/shillings/pence amounts.

The labor for someone to hand-copy the manuscript cost 36 shillings, but the parchment cost 6 shillings 9 pence (6.75 shillings).

Until you do, every pence spent is just taking you further away from that stability.

It looks like it's 180W, so it would run for about 4 pence an hour (in the UK, depending on rates).

Anyway, just my 2 pence - it's worked out pretty well for me so far...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Tesco lost money selling you a 20 pence item by credit card.

Why do you think there were 240 pence in a Pound Sterling?

(Up until 1971, British currency was expressed in pounds, shillings, and pence, with 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound.

I'm not sure, but NPower in the UK appears to be 8 pence (about 12 cents).

If you say yes, they charge you 10 pence PER bag.

I was told a number of tales and legends, including that one of the major British clearing banks still operated internally in pounds,shillings&pence behind a conversion layer.

My local library (in the UK) will fetch me a book from any participating library in the UK or Ireland and loan it to me for a month, for two pounds and fifty pence (a bit under four dollars at current exchange rates).

If I had 10 pence for every "email is broken" post, I could have had a free pint down the pub.

I don't know why I feel compelled to throw in my 2 pence...) It's hard to say "better" in a multi-dimensional question like this.

This makes even addition complicated, as tourists often discovered.)" Just after I had learned to add and subtract pounds shillings and pence, they went decimal!

Interesting that you chose to note that this is "the annual policing budget of 185,000 people," rather than the fact that it works out to 15 pence per-person per-year.

Pence signed today, or whether he's relying on the rhetoric of those who oppose it, who claim it will inevitably lead to discrimination.