grinder Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) I know what a ton £100 or a grand £1000 was and a fiver or a Tenner are self explanatory but what is a pony ? Edited October 2, 2014 by grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I know what a ton £100 or a grand £1000 was and a fiver or a Tenner are self explanatory but what is a pony ? 50 quid I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Little kids went for a " bob bar " a number two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Strange, but the old slang for coinage hasn't come up yet, has it ? Remember when small change was copper and silver was worth a bit more ? Both could have been made from those metals, not the imitation stuff we have today. Kids loved pennies & ha'pennies, they could be laid on the tram tracks to be squashed to twice their size by a passing city bound double decker. A Sixpence was a tanner; two tanners, a shilling, was a bob; two bob was a florin. A thirty pence coin, two and a half bob, was a half crown or half a dollar when there were four dollars to the pound. A crown, a five shilling coin was minted, but wasn't common or something used for everyday purchases. It was more likely to be given to a grandchild, or such, maybe as a keepsake. Dead simple ! Pocket calculators wouldn't come along until we went decimal so everybody had to be up with the mental stuff. There was one special coin , the Honolulu Penny, prized by some as a giggle. On these pennies, minted in the early 1900s, I think, Britannia was seated as usual but the end of her trident wasn't mid-thigh, it terminated further back.......... Honolulu ! as some said. hiya I remember 1949/50.in mr price's class we were given a lesson in mental arithmetic no calculators then, I've mentioned before miss hall would have us recite the times tables, and the money tables, 12pence= 1 shilling, 18 pence = 1 and sixpence, 20 pence=1 and eight pence, 24 pence =2 shillings, and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartav Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Yeah, I suppose kids are still taught tables by rote but I wonder if the system has improved them........... Seeking some photostats I went in a corner shop where a young girl, maybe just a school leaver, was behind the counter. " Seven copies at 8p each...... " I said to help count out the right money, ".......... that's 56p". " Er, No!" she said " Can't be right, 'cos eight sevens is 56 ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 But when we had a FUDDLE it meant we'd eaten all the chocolates... Another saying on similar lines to this was that we were " mugging ourselves " enjoying a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 hiya I remember 1949/50.in mr price's class we were given a lesson in mental arithmetic no calculators then, I've mentioned before miss hall would have us recite the times tables, and the money tables, 12pence= 1 shilling, 18 pence = 1 and sixpence, 20 pence=1 and eight pence, 24 pence =2 shillings, and so on. Rote was very useful. "30 days hath September, April, June and November....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartav Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Rote was very useful. "30 days hath September, April, June and November....." Never could understand how the pre-decimal coinage values came into being. The following aide memoire was taught to us to assist with an understanding of Metric............ Two & a quarter pounds of jam weigh about a kilogram. A metre measured three feet three, it's longer than a yard, you see. A litre of water's a pint & three quarters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 We did our times table but the only money bit I remember was at the end of each table. 12 x 12 = 144, 144 pence = 12/- or 12 x 8 = 96, 96 pence = 8/- Thought that was the reason the tables went up to twelve, but after all those years of swatting , they've only gone and went decimal dint di ........... ---------- Post added 04-10-2014 at 16:39 ---------- Never could understand how the pre-decimal coinage values came into being. The following aide memoire was taught to us to assist with an understanding of Metric............ Two & a quarter pounds of jam weigh about a kilogram. A metre measured three feet three, it's longer than a yard, you see. A litre of water's a pint & three quarters. Also I never could under stand why it was L. s. d. ? Apparently L and the D were Latin and the S was Austrian plus I believe the nearest we ever came to a decimal coin was the two bob piece.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 We did our times table but the only money bit I remember was at the end of each table. 12 x 12 = 144, 144 pence = 12/- or 12 x 8 = 96, 96 pence = 8/- Thought that was the reason the tables went up to twelve, but after all those years of swatting , they've only gone and went decimal dint di ........... ---------- Post added 04-10-2014 at 16:39 ---------- Also I never could under stand why it was L. s. d. ? Apparently L and the D were Latin and the S was Austrian plus I believe the nearest we ever came to a decimal coin was the two bob piece.. The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii. L, s and d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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