Absurdly awesome covers from 1930s boys' magazine: The Hotspur

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1d = penny
2d = tuppence
3d = threpence

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Isn’t that last one, “Thruppence”?

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4d = ?

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Double tuppence, obvs.

/s

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wiki says 4d was a “groat”!

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I think either is okay:


(granted you spell it right with both e’s :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: )

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The abbreviation for the old penny, d, was derived from the Roman denarius, and the abbreviation for the shilling, s, from the Roman solidus.

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(the halfpenny was more commonly known as the haypenny)

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(And if you haven’t got one, God bless you.)

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Hah. Chart is useless bullshit because it doesn’t list Guineas or Bobs!

(Actually, cool chart. I knew the basics of this stuff from a high school teacher, but he never got into crowns or farthings or such.)

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That’s beautiful. It’s a shame they gave up this system.

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Good point…

Guinea: A gold coin worth one pound, one shilling. (21 shillings)
Bob: was just the slang term for 1 shilling

Also…
pence = penny
mite = half farthing
tanner = 6 pence (pennies)
pony = 25 pounds
monkey = 500 pounds
sovereign = 1 pound (gold coin)
copper = penny
quid = pound
nicker = pound
yellow-boy = guinea
lady godiva = 5 pounds (also called a fiver)
etc…

(there were a LOT of slang terms, and variations on pronunciations)

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Although this is getting a bit off-topic…the really cool old bikes are called penny-farthings.

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It’s nice to see robots standing up for their own kind. Mechanical brethren, let us rise up against the scourge of car-based d-baggery!

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Or it’s just time to get schwifty.

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i like what you got.

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Edit - I jumped in with a reply and a link, only to see that the whole thread seems to have turned into a disussion of pre-decimal coinage.

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My grandma had a brooch of a penny farthing that actually had a penny and farthing for the wheels.

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I am not a number!

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I’ve only seen the newerish mini series from 2009, is the original any good?

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I don’t have the 2009 miniseries as a point of comparison, but the original is fantastic. The production values, the colour grade and the clothes now look very Groovy but the script was dark and paranoid. Patrick McGoowan plays the lead and also wrote the script. It’s also one of the earliest series that refused to wrap up the loose ends in the narrative or even explain what the fuck just happened.

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