[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 @ 01:24 +0100, Mike Meredith said:

> Whilst UK currency might appear to be based on Roman currency, it isn't.
> The silver penny (the "denarius" although it wasn't called that at the
> time) was introduced in 790 ... a gap of some time. The shilling wasn't
> introduced until 1548 (or possibly 1487).

I was taught that the issue of currency like the shilling was just a
renaming of the roman currencies to make the money 'british'.

That's not uncommon.  France, for example, does that for everything that
smells foreign... 

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