MORE ARIEL'S STUFF : MA AND PA MEET AND GET MARRIED, 1913
I can only give you very approximate values in American currency, but as a crude yardstick, one can state that during the period covered by these posts, there were 3 to 4 $s to the £ sterling. In fact a slang term for 5/ ( five shillings ) was a “ dollar”. Or if one preferred it, the rhyming slang version: “ Oxford scholar ”. British currency was referred to as l s d, from the Latin librum, solidus, denarius, the £ sign being used more commonly than the l. Here is a list of British coins, in... Sign in to see full entry.