What is half a shilling?
6d (six pence) known as a “tanner” or half a shilling. 2/u2013 (two shillings, or one florin, colloquially “two-bob bit”) 2/6 (two shillings and six pence, usually said as “two and six” or a “half-crown”; the value could also be spoken as “half a crown”, but the coin was always a half-crown) in the same […]
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