# Pounds, shillings, quid, pence...???

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pounds-shillings-quid-pence/27092>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 27, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pounds-shillings-quid-pence/27092 "2000-07-27T19:20:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pounds-shillings-quid-pence/27092/41 "2000-07-31T17:52:05Z")

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Oh dear,

So I guess I’d better throw away all these Elizabethan quids since they’ve gone down in value so much 🙂

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**Author:** ![fredicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fredicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fredicus)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pounds-shillings-quid-pence/27092/42 "2000-07-31T19:05:29Z")

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Would those be the ones that dodgy looking geezy swapped your dollars for in the pub ?

🙂

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