* The answer: £1 2s. 3d. It is solved by first turning everything into shillings, then into pence. Multiply the pounds by 20, add the shillings, multiply the sum by 12, and add the pennies.

After more than four centuries of a cumbersome system based on pounds, shillings and pence—12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound—the pound will equal 100 new pennies under the ...

In theory, as British subjects, the colonists should have been using the British monetary system of pounds, shillings, and pence (WHTM) — Buying and selling in the 13 colonies was a messy process.

The story of Decimal Day when the UK switched from pounds, shillings and pence, as seen through the BBC archive. ... New pence: The story of 1971's Decimal Day. Image caption, ...

On 15 February 1971 - Decimal Day - the British currency system finally switched over from the old £sd system of pounds, shillings and pence to the current decimal system. The change, however ...