Pounds, shillings, and pence: a history of English coinage

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nonsense re the EU and 1/2 litre rather than pints They were tollerant of English foibles to a fault
Comment from : Cadi Leigh

note to americans we DO NOT use the old system we have not used it since 1971
Comment from : Paul S

30:01
Comment from : eshaan Bidarakoppa

i love how you places the invisible coin on an invisible table in the intro
Comment from : DJhato

Es fácil de forjar usando molde y ácido
Comment from : ALFERED farjam

and the "yeurgh" as used in Europe
Comment from : matafuko

As someone who only recently started collecting coins and other numismatics This video had my fullest attention from start to finish Another excellent content by Lindybeige !!
Comment from : daswerdasss

Who was shaving the edges of coins off?
Comment from : caleb

a bunch of things here I do like the British monetary and engineering systems (can divide by 2,3, 4 ) But, it has problems when dealing with higher powers (n^x) Nonetheless, when i went to the markets in Poland and asked for a 'pfund' of cheese, I'd get 500g of cheese brBTW I'm still mystified about nail weight in the US
Comment from : James Mataczynski

You forgot 4 as a divisor of 100
Comment from : Lance WARING

The $ was originally an U with a S on topUnited States
Comment from : Charlene Lundquist

I would argue that in a system where the real value of one penny is so low, having 100 per pound is actually not a major detriment I think of the cost of something as the nearest number of pounds, so dividing up the cost of something is just a matter of how convenient that number of pounds is to divide I think nothing of giving someone £24 instead of £2367
Comment from : hats

A straightforward system with four farthings to the penny, twelve pennies to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound and twenty one shillings to the guinea
Comment from : David Porthouse

and btw, here, in Russia we buy eggs 6 or 10 :))
Comment from : KZK2333350

странно, я, живя в Москве, сморю видео про историю англиской валюты!
Comment from : KZK2333350

Lindybeige would be amazing on "Just a minute"
Comment from : Dog Walker

Love the soft cover Player's Handbook It looks well loved
Comment from : DarthBop

that edge trimming is where we get the term chiseler, a synonym for a swindler or a embezzler they literally shaved the edges of coins with a sharp chisel
Comment from : handyhippie65

Last I checked, in the US a cow could be valued between $900 and $3000 depending on genetics
Comment from : Lamprolign

In Germany the eggs are selled in 5, 10, 20 barbarians!
Comment from : Omar Chávez

This video makes me want to start again to L:s:d
Comment from : ScholarofProspero

Now we don’t even have a 50 pound note we only have the 20 10 5
Comment from : ScholarofProspero

For the longest time, I thought the reason old coins were oddly shaped was simply because they were manufactured that way due to technological limitations of the timebrbrAlso, I first heard about the "guinea" unit from iMuppet Treasure Island,/i where the opening number mentions that pirates would fight each other "for a bag of guineas or a piece of eight" However, it wasn't until I saw Gilbert & Sullivan's iPatience/i that I found out it was specifically an bEnglish/British/b unit of money, where local ladies' man Bunthorne holds a raffle and charges half a guinea per ticket So that would be 10 shillings sixpence, or £8245 (10252 USD) in today's money
Comment from : ARC the Cartoon Master

Mark A Flynn in his book "the Labyrinth" describes how the American $ sign comes from the Spanish dollar sign, which has two lines, and it stands for the two trees in the garden of Eden with the snake in it And that the symbol came from the idea that after the fall, we all have to work for our money I don't know if that's true, but always thought it made a lot of sense
Comment from : Minnix Music

sorry Northern IrelandbrNo?
Comment from : David

I've never had an inclination to play D&D but for some reason i think ot would be really enjoyable to play with Nik 😁
Comment from : Harrison Kane

Were the counterfitters hung at Leeds?br( I dont know , somthing i remember from Monty Python😊)
Comment from : Michael Blaney

The decimal system is better cause it works better for Trade in a World economy
Comment from : Jason WB

I'm not a numistatist but
Comment from : Glen Ayers iil

We sell eggs in multiples of 12 and 24 here in the states cuz everything's gotta be bigger in texas
Comment from : Basic Weeb

41:30 Sir Isaac Newton only took his job so seriously because he understood the gravity of the situation
Comment from : Everyone’s Had A Drink

I think it was a great system back when those coins were the money everyone usedbrI don't think it would be sensible going back to it now with online transactions and what not, Lloyd pointed it out already saying "20 pound notes are what people use" Physical money is just not as important anymore although we all love it
Comment from : Balázs Buza

In defence of the Guinea In Mapp and Lucia there is a storyline where Lucia is negotiating to buy a house from Mapp which she doesn't really want, but needs, to sell An offer is made which she doesn't want to accept It is upped to guineas rather than pounds and she accepts In a negotiation, changing an offer of pounds gives an automatic 5 increase without changing the number, thereby saving face to a degree, which can be useful
Comment from : 1daveyp

Am glad i grew my portfolio from 17k to 100k last month inside my wallet without sending a dime to anyone through the help of Mrs Charlotte margit
Comment from : Thomas Prochaska

You are correct, it was indeed a flipping good system of Currency, vastly superior to the Decimal nonsense I wish we could bring it back into style — and I say that even though I'm American, and we never had it to begin with However, in our defense, we did at least have the sense to keep our Weights and Distances in traditional units
Comment from : Alvin Helms

Just hit the electrum bit at 18:00 , and time is once again a flat circle, as I came to this video to find inspiration for coinage in my D&D game Amazing!
Comment from : Logan Isanerd

you could hardly do better francly
Comment from : Charlie Knight

Great video 👍
Comment from : Round N Shiny

So 2 electrum to a gold is correct? Cause 1 electrum is 10 silver
Comment from : Lucky_Owl

I shall now use this system in my dnd campaignbrThank you very much
Comment from : Gustav Åkerman

I've watched this video like four times Because this man's enthusiasm is infectious, and I'm a huge nerd for antique coins
Comment from : One Ghost

I have heard the US dollar originally was from the U and S overlapping each other The bottom of the U was eventually cut off and the second line of the U is often left out
Comment from : Paul Oleske

why is the paper money so big? Canadian paper money fits in a wallet without folding, because it is smaller
Comment from : Castle Keep27

Question for all A manner house and land near my house were sold in 1448 for 4 marks or 6 poundsbrbrWithout using inflation calculators give me the sum of one mark in 1448 currency And give me the total price for the manner and land
Comment from : Ste Lo

Wondering, since England won’t be using the euro anymore will they go back to the way they used to do money? I don’t know what they’re actually doing since brexit , the information is probably out there but I can’t be bothered to google it at the moment
Comment from : MissMeganBeckett

"It's nowhere near as complicated as I thought"brblooks at the video durarion/bbrSuuuuure
Comment from : Pimp My Forklift

Fabulous ⚘
Comment from : UИKИOWИ ИORIE

bloody romans
Comment from : Thatvikingguy

American here; American bad at math here to be more specific That being said, this is really cool to learn about and the sub-multiples of an even numbered currency base seems more, idk, sophisticated than the prime one Very cool to learn about alongside some of the history of British coinage!
Comment from : 0x0ism

It seem like part of the confusion is the fact that prices were listed in coins rather than pence value
Comment from : Daniel Roy

a sytems of 240 cents to a dollar would make sense, but adding a middle value like a shilling just seems unnecessary Just print the number of pence the coins is worth
Comment from : Daniel Roy

Can we have £240? is that a weird compromise?
Comment from : Rat_King-

I liked that, especially the Marks bit All in all Educataining 😁
Comment from : EgoEroTergum

British Pound in Czech language is still called libra
Comment from : RamsesTheFourth

I feel very reassured
Comment from : Darren Mills

"A dollar for no reason that anyone knows for sure"brOh god now it's the "Dollar sign started out as the letters U and S laid on top of each other" argument all over again
Comment from : One Ghost

It would have been cool if we base money (or perhaps our numerical system) on powers of two (instead of powers of 10) and used base 12 instead of base 10 (decimal):brbrBills: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256 (which is surprisingly close to 240 which many other currencies were used to denominate another currencybrbrBase 12: can be evenly divided by 1, 2, 3,4,6,12 allowing for half, thirds, quarters, sixths, and twelfths brbrdecimal only evenly divides half, fifths, and tenths, quarters unevenly and thirds are technically not possible brbrAlso we could account in binary or any power of two very easily making it readily Scalable and also have conceptual relatablity between computers which are based in binary
Comment from : Pyroon

If you listen on headphones it is like Mr Beige is swimming back and forth through your head Which I think is a good feature
Comment from : crasstafari crasstafari

I just like the information
Comment from : dylan tyt

Another great show
Comment from : Pie shop

This is not dissimilar from the difference of metric and imperial system As a farmer with some college in engineering I use metric for long term accurate calculations but standard system for quick imprecise measurements because both systems have different areas of efficiency
Comment from : Agent Neely

48:11 A bob wasn't 6d, it was a shilling !
Comment from : bouli3576

Swedish noisy people at 11:00 or so Filmed in Visby, maybe?
Comment from : Daniel Brahneborg

breakfast lunch dinner
Comment from : Sarcasm Man

Two things, 1 I didn't know pounds were decimalised i always assumed it was still some 12-variant And 2, i recently for a dnd game wanted to look up values for things in the 17th century, learned about the 1-20-12 system and decided to adopt it Haven't run it yet but it was quite easy for me to start thinking in such conversions I did not however bother with farthings guinneas and threepence They don't seem to serve much of a purpose other than colloquial terminology or smaller denomination
Comment from : friggin149

It's 3am and I wanted to watch this again before bed only to remember it's a hour long xD
Comment from : HYDE

I'm sure I bumped into this guy in the smoking area of Ministry of Sound and he told me all of this in exactly the same manner
Comment from : Archefluxx Happy Hardcore

Higher denomination notes were mainly used for moving money around before electronic transactions were a thing Historically the US had banknotes as high as $10k
Comment from : Tao Liu

Hahayou sounded so much like Mitch Benn I thought it *was Mitch Benn until I looked at my screen and saw that it wasn't actually Mitch Benn I'm glad I don't like Mitch Benn very much
Comment from : A fish

Rip are majesty
Comment from : Sentis

I miss the lecture videos
Comment from : Absolute Sandwich

Man, a 240 is so good Divides by so many numbers! 120 or 180 wouldn't have been so bad either
Comment from : Weaponized Emoticon

Why didn't they use the guinea keep the schilling at 12d and just decimilize the pence much better! 🤔 so you end up with 2520 units!
Comment from : Lee DHendon

It's all about confusion Confusionism like the Chinese practice Swindling people and military and workers information to take full advantage of the poor person And your pocket and the purse
Comment from : Gul Majeed

I don't understand the 240 rant Who cares about it's fractions?? How often are you splitting money up into even fractions? Not to mention that actually sounds really *inconvenient*, rather than more convenient "Oh look I have 1 1/2 coin, 7 1/3 coins, 5 1/4 coins, and 41 1/20 coins This is so much more convenient than having 50 1/100 coins and 3 1/10 coins How ever will I add that up to learn I have 80¢?"brWhy would anyone want to deal with the mess that is fractions when you can use decimal?
Comment from : Mike H

The weight thing is so neat, except the penny doest weigh 2x the ha'penny! The Ha'penny is 567g while the penny is 945g It should be 567 x 2 which is 1134 brbrAll other coins add up perfectly Why is this!?
Comment from : LeaveDavidAlone

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Comment from : Thế Cường Lưu

This is the most entertaining video about coinage I have ever seen!
Comment from : Bill Potter

5:59 "sorry scotland, sorry wales" brbrOrangemen wept
Comment from : allmikau

After the 240 pence discussion, I want to see Lindy do a video on why we should use a base-12 number system
Comment from : David DeChamplain

what about the 4 pence coin??
Comment from : Mathew Palmer

Someone should show this video to Viced Rhino - the fact that we have 10 fingers total is clearly evidence that we weren’t intelligently designed, and it will really help prove useful in his battle against creationists
Comment from : ARC the Cartoon Master

26:40 Ah, so bthat’s/b what was meant by “made such a mark” in iHMS Pinafore/i - Sir Joseph was saying he was making bank as office boy For the longest time, I thought he meant he left his mark on the lawyer firm he worked at
Comment from : ARC the Cartoon Master