• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Most countries use a metric-like system for their money. Non-metric money would be something like what the UK had before decimalization.

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        1 year ago

        Dollars and centers are metric money. Old English money was some Harry Potter bullshit. A pound had twenty shillings, a shilling had twelve pennies, and a penny had four farthings. Apparently this was established by Henry II in 1154 and “decimalisation” (with an s!) did not occur until nineteen seventy god-damn one.