Thursday, September 9, 2010

Can anyone explain English money, please?

I have been watching Corontation Street as long as I can remember, and I still haven't figured out what a shilling is.

In Canada, we have penny = one cent

nickel = five cents

quarter = twenty-five cents

fifty-cent piece (rare)

loonie = one dollar

twonie = two dollars

five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bills



is there still such a thing as a ha'penny or a sovereign?

is the pence the lowest denomination?

is it one one hundredth of a pound, like our penny is to our dollar?