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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 3513856, member: 40017&quot;]... and just to sort out the monetary value for you, you have seven shillings and fourpence hapenny there, as it would have been said at the time, or £-/7/4 1/2 as it might have been written. This is a total of 88.5 Old pennies or 36.875 new pennies. This is just over 48 cents US on today&#039;s exchange rate!</p><p>However inflation means that it was worth a lot more in buying power at the time. A typical chocolate bar would have cost you about 6 old pence, and so you would have got about 15 of these for your money. Using this as a measure of inflation, your coins would have the equivalent buying power today of around £12.50 or $16.40.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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