Then there's the guinea, which was 21 shillings (one pound and one shilling) which is still in use as a unit of currency in areas like prize money for horse...
Stefan, Good info - thanks. That sounds more reasonable to me. Where are you located? When giving directions - do ordinary folks give distance in miles or ...
The next World Championship Slide Rule Competition will be on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 2:00 pm at the Ramada Hotel in Irving, Texas. The competition is open...
... Near Waterloo, Ontario. ... Kilometres. Miles would be useless, since the odometers are all in kilometres. -- Stefan Vorkoetter Capable Computing, Inc. ...
... Equivalent to two shillings, and commonly known as a "two bob bit". ... Also known as "half a dollar" in my youth. ... We had two "thruppeny bit" coins;...
Hi John, It's not always obvious when a Brit comes, or doesn't come, the raw prawn! Googling "seven shilling piece" is quite revealing. Regards, Rod ... coins....
G'day Ron. You have improved my education. I found not only the seven shilling, but also the six shilling, three shilling and one and sixpenny coins, plus the...
I don't think anyone has mentioned the groat yet. This was a silver fourpenny coin, about the same size as the silver threepenny bit, which ceased to be minted...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of today). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links, go to this page and...
Hi all, It seems like the present topic has gone pretty far, after all, we are a slide rule group :-). Off topic subjects are of great interest to our members,...
Gary, I was going to suggest for those interested in the metric conversion [US} and SI in particular, that they can join the USMA site at: usma@.......
Ok, all of you wiseacres..... While visiting jolly old England in the early 80s I had a fellow at a VW dealer (I was looking for collectible VW parts) tell me...
Hi all, Making things understandable for novices is the exact point of introductory chemistry or physics texts (and this group by the way). Those texts do a...
The postings of the eBay prices for slide rules are very useful. One thing that strikes me as something unusual is how low the prices really are. I was in...
Looking for more data on the Muiderkring N.V. Muiderkring Rekenliniaal Systeem Electronioca. They made it in two versions, a 15 cm long model and a 22 cm long...
Well ... sliderules that are being sold now are usually second-hand and often in second-hand condition. This would mean that they should be cheaper than new. ...
Twenty-odd years ago New Jersey switched the "distance-to" signs on the Interstate highways from miles to kilometers with little or no notice that I recall....
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All the postings on old British coins reminds me of a few interesting (at least to me) oddities in past US coinage. The copper 2-cent piece, The nickel 3-cent...
I spent several years in various parts of central and southern Africa. One of the (many) oddities I noticed was that much business was conducted using Maria...
Many thanks to all who pondered my question, and who came up with answers. I'll let my correspondent know the final conclusion, as written below. Regards,...
... In addition to the ones you listed, US coinage over the years included the copper half cent and the silver twenty cent piece. Collecting old items of any...
Let us not forget pine-tree shillings and pieces of eight! (The latter, you might think were inherited from the Spanish, but some colonial coinage came with...
I have a Pickett N4-ES in which the cursor 'wobbles' a bit, not much but on some scales it will alter the reading by a measure or so. THere is a spring in the...
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