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 knjvit

link 21.12.2016 10:49 
Subject: 23s. 8d. gen.
Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.
23s. 8d.
Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:
The great corn-growing counties of the east coast yield an average rent of 23s.8d. an acre; the more mixed husbandry of the midland counties, and the grazing, green crop, and dairy districts of the west, 31s. 5d.
Заранее спасибо

 Lonely Knight

link 21.12.2016 10:57 

 Lonely Knight

link 21.12.2016 10:58 

 Oleg Sollogub

link 21.12.2016 11:01 
23 шиллинга 8 пенсов

 knjvit

link 21.12.2016 11:08 
Спасибо.

 johnstephenson

link 24.12.2016 3:15 
Also written 23/8 (until decimalisation in 1971) and pronounced "23 and 8".

23 shillings would have been written 23s 0d or 23/- .

All history now, though. "Ah, the good old days...."

 

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