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No pockets, no sympathy Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Ted Richards of Batemans Bay answers the call for popular names for pre-decimal currency (C8) with “browns (pennies), bob or deener (one shilling), two-bob (two shillings, as in silly as a two-bob watch), dollar or possibly crown (five shillings), spin (five pound note), brick (10 pound note). A 20-pound note was a small fortune and no one I knew had ever seen one”. As a young bank teller in the days before decimal currency (C8), Frank Maundrell of Nundle notes there were “lots of names for ‘the cash’, most unprintable”. Frank concurs with Ted about many of the other names, adding that “apart from in American movies, I do not recall hearing ‘grand’ used until the Americanisation of our language became more entrenched”. Ron Schaffer of Bellevue Hill contributes that “guineas were one pound and one shilling each, or 21 shillings in all, making the maths impossible. Business people relied on books

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