Can someone please explain British currency?
I am an American but I watch loads of BBC, within fact that is to say the only article I wathc..anyway- I am having trouble relating British currency to American. What are the name of all of your currency and how can I relate it to American to better twig...I really appreciate this... :)Answers: Well. In England paper learned, there are the lb5, lb10, lb20 and lb50 record. Along side those there is the lb1 and lb2 coin. We also enjoy a 1 penny, 2 penny,10 penny, 20 penny, and a 50 penny piece. The common use would be '50 pence piece' or '20 pence piece'. Not sure if this is the answer you be looking for but i hope that it helps.
pence= cents pounds = dollers
100 pence is 1 pound
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I don't know much roughly American currency so I don't know how I can relate it better for you, but I'll explain all the denominations we hold anyway!
1p, 2p (both bronze/copper coins)
5p, 10p, 20p, 50p (silver colour)
lb1 (100p in respectively pound coin) - these are gold contained by colour
lb2 (200p in respectively lb2 coin) gold outline and silver within the middle
lb5 coin (never seen one back, but apparently it's very big and silver)
lb5 information, lb10 note, lb20 register, lb50 note (the lb5 aka a fiver is widely circulated around the UK and ATMs don't dispense them as it costs more money to riddle the machines up with them or something)
Other than that I dunno how I can assistance! :)
100 cents = 1 dollar
100 new pence = 1 pound
approx 1.9 dollars to pound
1 pence is more or less or near 2 cents
dont come over here or you will be ripped bad
example 1 gallon of gas(petrol) will cost you about 8 or 9 dollars
you reflect you have it tough try the british gov.
Just double it or partly it.
ie One pound (lb) is about two dollars
One pence (p) is roughly two cents
We no longer use shillings tanners bob etc. so you can forget about them,
a nickel= 5 cent
a dime=10 cent
a quater=25 cent
We use similar coins but don't dispense them names anymore. only 1p 2p 5p 10p 20p 50p
The notes (bills) are similarly lb5 lb10 lb20 lb50 amounts.
A quid is newly a slang word for a pound
further to earlier answers, americans enjoy dimes and nickels, where contained by this country we also have other name for our denominations which can have regional variation (rhyming slang & others) for example:
50 pence = ten bob (a bob in 'out-of-date money' was 5p hence ten bob)
5 pounds = a fiver, or within slang a lady godiva
10 pounds = a tenner, or ayrton senna
25 pounds = a pony
100 pounds = a ton
1000 pounds = a elegant, or bag of sand
A pound is 100 pennies. We hold the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, 1 pound and 2 pound coins. (unless it's changed, haven't been contained by the uk for two years now!)
Then the 5, 10, 20 and 50 pound summary.
1 pound is roughly 2 dollars.
if you've been watching antiquated BBC programs, the currency used to work like this: [i think]
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound sterling [sterling = 92.5% silver]
thus,
240 pence per pound
I appear to recall that for comparatively a long time [prior to 1920 or so], the value of the American dollar be fixed such that 2.4 of them were equal to a pound sterling -- and thus that the British penny and American penny be of equal value. [So be the Canadian penny.]
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there be also other units, usually pre-1920
1 farthing = 1/4 penny
2 farthings = 1 halfpenny ["ha'penny"]
4 farthings = 1 penny [but the plural of penny within money is pence, pennies meant to literally own that many penny pieces]
tuppence = 2 pence; a piece worth 2 pennies.
nearby also used to be a three penny or three pence coin.
and long ago, a sterling coin worth four pennies circulated under the christen "groat" - it was like weight of sterling as a coin of one and the same name used within Holland and Belgium.
half shilling = 6 pence
1 crown = 5 shillings or 60 pence or 1/4 pound
the crown be minted in sterling and (i believe) originally have a crown on the obverse {face}.
was here a half-crown piece [30 pence or 2 shillings and a half]? I seem to remember reading of them somewhere, so I dream up yes.
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the original [very early] coin be the silver penny. it's fineness was fixed at 92.5% which be called sterling. [pure silver is too soft for coinage; it would corrode with use] Later, the penny be made of bronze.
the pound sterling was originally fixed as a literal pound's freight of sterling pennies. They were stamped within a die with the go before of the reigning monarch.
for obvious reason, the pound coinage became a hill note that could be exchanged for a pound of 92.5% (sterling) silver.
the capably to do also used a small gold coin name the guinea, which was worth 21 shillings. [I know the difference between the attraction of the pound and guinea is a bit odd.]
the guinea be 99.5% gold. as surrounded by the sterling coins, pure gold is too soft to be used as coinage due to wear.
it be apparently a mark of one's sumptuousness to pay a bill for N pounds by giving the personality owed N guineas and ignoring the fine-tuning.
the gold for a guinea originally come from the west african land of equal name.
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next there are the more recent and plain as the nose on your face fiver and tenner, which are bank summary worth five pounds and ten pounds, respectively.
there might hold been others and I grant that I've forgotten.
Go to :
http://uk.nouns.yahoo.com/
There's a lot of honourable info!
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