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  Re: Educate me!
 
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:04:17 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Guessing time. Transition from the "salt" standard, to silver standard? (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
 
  Re: Educate me!
 
Pretty good guess. A quick search on www.eb.com then reveals... "the basic monetary unit of Great Britain, divided (since 1971) decimally into 100 new pence. The term is derived from the fact that, about 775, silver coins known as "sterlings" were (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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