How many farthings are in a british guinea ?

Question

How many farthings are in a british guinea ?

Answer 1

1 guinea = 21 shillings

1 shilling = 12 pence

1 pence = 4 farthings

1 gn = 21 shillings x 12 pence x 4 farthings = 1008 farthings in a guinea

Answer 2

A Guinea = £1 + 1/- = 21/- (twenty one shillings).  There are 12 pennies to one shilling and four farthings to one penny.

So - 1 shilling = 48 farthings x 21 (shillings) = 1008 farthings.

Victorian coinageLike the pound, the guinea could also be divided exactly into many ... Smaller coins - one third and one quarter farthings - were minted mainly for use in ...

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Please note that there was a difference between American Colonial monetary values and that of English money.  See link below.

Arithmetic Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction: Being a ... - Google Books Resultby Warren Colburn - 1831

The English guinea is equal to 28s. in New England currency. The dollar will be .considered 6s. in this book, ... How many pence are there in 84 farthings ? ...

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Answer 3

A guinea was 21 shillings when shillings had 12 pence.  Mulitply 21 and 12 and then multiply again by 4.

Answer 4

4

Answer 5

there is no such thing now,

but there was 4 fathings in a penny,12 pennys in a shilling,20 shillings in a pound,one pound 1 shilling equals a guinea .so work it out fromthere

Answer 6

( 21 x 12 ) x 4 . and there was a little bird on the face side .

Answer 7

1008

Answer 8

You do know that we don't use this monetary system any more, don't you?