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You gained pounds
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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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!
I had forgotten about predecimal currency! God I'm glad the US never did that shit
Inflation would be heavy in that system