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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 8237715, member: 102103&quot;]Oh, and since I love this kind of stuff, here&#039;s a bit from my <a href="https://wordpress.com/post/coinfaq974389709.wordpress.com/226" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wordpress.com/post/coinfaq974389709.wordpress.com/226" rel="nofollow">coin blog</a> as to why Jersey pennies were 13 to the shilling:</p><p>&quot;As Jersey is geographically much closer to France than to England, French money tended to circulate.&nbsp; The French coinage was denominated in livres and sous, with 20 sous to the livre.&nbsp; Shortly after the French Revolution, there were 26 French livres to one English pound.&nbsp; One shilling is 1/20th of a pound, and thus one shilling was worth 26 sous.&nbsp; The French Revolution decimalized the currency, with one franc equaling 100 centimes.&nbsp; As livres and sous were obsolete, they no longer circulated readily in Jersey.&nbsp; I would imagine the chaos of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars also disrupted the flow of money to the island.&nbsp; To make up for this, Jersey began making its own coinage in the 1830s.&nbsp; One Jersey penny equalled two French sous, which meant it took 13 Jersey pence to equal one English shilling, as compared to 12 pence to the shilling in the UK proper.&quot;[ATTACH=full]1449528[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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