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Are there any other countries that used to have an 'imperial' type money system?

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like the British, pounds, shilling, pence, which then changed to 'decimal' or have all money systems throughout the world always been decimal?

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  1. All the former colonies of the British Empire, including some in America.


  2. That system was used in lots of commonwealth countries including Australia (and Canada?)

    The pre-decimal English money had its roots in common sense, even if it is clearly complicated.

    1 silver penny made of sterling silver, weighed 1/240 of a pound. So 240 silver pennies were a pound sterling. The pound could be subdivided into 20 shillings of 12 pennies. The pre-decimal pound lasted over 900 years.

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