How were things priced in Great Britain in the victorian ages? I know we use like $2.50. I've also seen where they have used a "triple 0 system" Something like 2/2/3 which would mean "2 pounds, 2 shillings, and 3 pence".
What was really fun was addition and subtraction - later on they had little mechanical calculators but back in the 19th century everything was done with arithmetic.
Well, the L-S-D system worked fine for Charlemagne in the 8th century. Was used in Europe (parts of continental E.) for some more time, and the British used it until 1971. May look difficult from today's POV, but I guess it boils down to what one is used too. There are even countries out there where distances, weights etc. are measured in similarly strange units. Oh, and as for how prices looked like, there's always Wikipedia. But LMGTFY works well too, hehe. Christian
The one I failed to understand was the Guinea - a gold coin worth a shilling more than a Sovereign or 21 shillings. Of course we did have groats (4d) and their halves. Before we in the US get too uppity on this we must admit to having a bit of 12 1/2 cents and special names like dime (disme) and half dime not to mention shouting decimalization while minting quarters.
