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You gained pounds (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sterling wasn't even decimalised until the 70s, so you'd often be talking about florins, shillings, pence etc. before pounds.

So in a lot of ways it was even worse!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I had forgotten about predecimal currency! God I'm glad the US never did that shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Inflation would be heavy in that system