how is pound related to shilling and pence? are crown and half-crown still in use? what r the other units?
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In the UK before 1971, there was a different monetary system in place, with three basic levels - pounds, shillings and pence.\nPence is another word for pennies, or single coins like 1 cent pieces.\nIn the old "Imperial" system, it worked like this:\n1/4 of a penny = farthing\n1/2 of a penny = half-penny (or ha'penny)\n1 penny = 1 "pence"\n3 pence - Threepenny piece (or Thruppenny Bit)\n6 pence - Sixpence\n12 pence = 1 shilling\n20 shillings = 1 pound \nMaking 240 pennies, or pence, to the pound.\n\nThere were other coins amounting to specific amounts within the system. The Florin, for instance, was worth two shillings (or 24 pence). The Half-Crown, just for fun, was worth two shillings and six pence (30 pence in total) and the Crown, understandably, was worth two Half-Crowns (equivalent to 5 shillings, or 70 pence). And finally the Guinea, which was worth one pound and one shilling (21 shillings, or 252 pence)\n\nIn 1971, the UK joined the metric system, based on there being 100 pence in every pound. The currency was also revalued, so that a shilling was now only worth 5 pence, rather than 12, so that there were still 20 shillings in a pound (largely to help people deal with the change when budgetting their weekly shopping!)\n\nAs far as I know the Crown and Half-Crown are no longer in active use - if you think about it, a half-crown, being worth two shillings and six pence, would now be a coin worth 16 pence, which is a little unweildy for shopping purposes. And similarly, the crown, being worth five shillings, would now be worth one pound twenty-five pence.\n\nSo now in the UK, we have the following units\n1p - one penny or one pence\n2p - two pence\n5p - five pence (one shilling)\n10p - ten pence (two shillings)\n20p - twenty pence (for some reason, calling this four shilings hasn't caught on)\n50p - fifty pence (ten shillings)\n£1 - one pound\n£2 - two pounds - the newest coin to be introduced. After this we go to notes, with £5 being the first.\n\nHowever, just to confuse matters even further, you'll still find mention of guineas and crowns in particular settings - several high-profile horse races award prizes in guineas and crowns. But for the majority of the population, they don't exist as actual coins any more. Incidentally, while researching this answer, I've discovered there was also a half-guinea and a five-guinea coin prior to decimalisation.
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1 guinea was 21 shillings\n1 shilling was 12 pence\nthe quarter guinea was 5 shillings and a threepence
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It is Pound Sterling (£)\n\nGood Luck!!
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The Latin word libra describes a Roman unit of weight similar to a pound, and the abbreviation “lb” for the unit of weight and the signs £ and ₤ (crossed-out Ls) for the currency derived from this. The word “pound” comes from the Latin pendere, “to weigh”; Latin libra means “scales, balances”.
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There are 1760 yards to a mile and three feet to a yard, making 5280 feet, Why? God only knows, but that's Imperial measurement for you.  If you want some more Imperial facts, read on:\nTwenty shillings made a pound,\nTwelve pence made a shilling.\nTwenty-four pence made a florin.\nTwo shillings made a florin.\nTwo sixpences made a shilling.\nTwo shillings and sixpence made half-a-crown.\nThirty pence made half-a-crown.\nFive shillings made a crown.\nFour Crowns made a pound.\nTwo threepences made a sixpence.\nForty sixpences made a pound.\nTwo halfpennies made a penny.\nTwo farthings made a halfpenny.\nTwo hundred and forty pennies made a pound.\nFour hundred and eighty halfpennies made a pound.                                                      Nine hundred and sixty farthings made a pound.\n                                           \nTwenty-hundredweight made a ton.\nEight stone made a hundredweight.\nFourteen pounds made a stone.\nSixteen ounces made a pound,\n(Unless they were Troy ounces, then there were only twelve).\n\n\nQuestion:   How many farthings were there in an ounce? \n\nThis was how prices were calculated in GB until 1972 when the Pound became Metric.   Shortly afterwards, building materials also went metric.   Still to this day, I cannot give any idea how tall a person is in Metric if he is 5feet 10 inches.          So you are worried about 5280 feet.\n\nIs it any wonder that I was forever getting a hiding from the teacher?\n\n--------------------
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What sort of pound? Troy pounds? Apothecary pounds? What sort of ton? Long ton? short ton? metric ton? \n\nDepending on the type of pound and ton, you can get many different answers (N*M, where N is the number of types of pounds and M is the number of types of tons).
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There are 490 banknotes to a pound.  There are 454 grams in a pound, so one one note would weight slightly less than a gram (0.926530612 grams or 926.5 milligrams)
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there are many and there are several more modern variations, because ha'pennies are in short supply now.  When I were a lad we played football or sometimes rugby with coins - it involved three 2p coins (the half p coins being quite tiddly by then) and some weird thing you did with your hands.   Ah, those were the days, shoite so they were...
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4 weighings. First weigh 6 and 6. If one is heavy you take the heavy side. 3 and 3. Pick the heavy side. 1 and 1, if equal it is the third.\n\nThe 4th weighing is one of the coins may be light and when you weigh 3 vs 3 they might be the same and you would have to pick the other pile of 6.
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LB (or lb) is the abbreviation for the word pound.  It is the same unit of measurement.  1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pound
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It is a British coin, but you don't say what denomination it is. You can identify the coin from the pictures at the site below and then, look up further information on it
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Pound Sterling.  Divided into 100 pence.\n\nNotes:\n\n£1 (Scotland only)\n£5\n£10\n£20\n£50\n\nCoins:\n\n1p\n2p\n5p\n10p\n20p\n50p\n£1\n£2
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You may be surprised to find that there are several different pounds. The most common is the Avoirdupois Pound which is equal to 16 ounces. This is the pound that is used for almost all mass measurements in the United States.\n\nOthers include the Apothecaries' and Troy pound which are both equal to 12 ounces. The Apothecary pound was used chiefly in the pharmacuetical industry but is not used much anymore (only the "grain", an apothecary unit of mass is still used from time to time). The Troy pound is used to measure the weight of precious gems and metals. Although most people rarely have the oppportunity to buy gold in Troy pounds as gold is not often available in such large quantities in buillon form, they certainly can buy gold in Troy ounces much more readily.
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The pound, was in fact a pound of sterling silver. It took a certain amount of various coins to equal the weight (and value) of a pound of silver. I was serving in the military in the U.K. when the they went to the decimal system and actually operated on the old system for over a year. It takes 12 pence to make a shilling ("bob") and 20 shillings to make a pound (240 pence to the pound. A farthing was a fourth of penny, a half-crown was 2 shillings and 6 pence a crown then equaled 5 shillings. A guinea was a gold version of the pound, but due to increases in the price of gold could be worth as much as 30 shillings.
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Usually POUND (when it refers to weight) is abbreviated "lb.", although I have sometimes seen "lbs." The Latin word for pound is LIBRA, and that word was once used in English when referring to money. Apparently our word "pound" comes from the Latin word "pondo" which means weight; the Latin expression seems to have been "libra pondo" for "a pound in weight" (as opposed to a pound in money). The Italian monetary unit, the lira, as well as the British pound were coins that were once equivalent to a pound of a precious metal. Both are abbreviated with a fancy capital L (not followed by a period). The story of the terminology can be found in the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, and also (under pound, libra and in the appendix) in the AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY.
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When they changed from silver to modern coinage, they kept the weights the same so both would work in vending machines.\n\npennies = 2.5 g x 57 = 142.5 g\nnickels = 5.0 g x 3 = 15 g\ndimes = 2.268 g x 3 = 6.804 g\nquarters = 5.67 g x 2 = 11.34 g\nhalves = 11.34 g x 1 = 11.34 g\n\nNote that a dime weighs 1/5 of a half dollar and a quarter weighs half as much, so that when they were all silver you'd get an equal amount of silver for an equal amount of cents.\n\nThere are about 454 g in a pound, or 227 in a half pound.  These coins add up to 186.984 g, or a little less than half a pound.
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British Pound, Euro and Dollar.\n\nHere is why:\nBritish Pound $0.549\nEuro $0.795\nDollar $1.000\n\nTop 3 Answerer in Business & Finance. (Vote for me)