How many groats were there in £1?
"English National Concessionary Pass (a free bus pass for people over 60, allowing free off-peak travel on local bus services throughout England) introduced on 1 April 2008, and the pre-existing equivalent concession for pensioners in Scotland. He completed the first leg of the trip in one week and six hours. The entire journey was completed in two weeks, 8 hours and 30 minutes. In 1954, Gertrude Leather travelled by 17 local buses from Land's End to London, at a cost of £1 19s 6d (£1.97½), and the following year travelled from London to John o' Groats by 25 local buses"
"groat was first minted under King Edward I. Scots groats were not issued until the reign of David II. Scots groats were originally also worth fourpence, but later issues were valued at eightpence and a shilling. Irish groats were minted first in 1425 and the last ones were minted under the reign of Elizabeth I of England. There were also two more issues, both emergency coinage. While strictly speaking, the English groat should have contained four pennyweights or 96 grains (6.2 grams) of sterling silver, the first ones issued weighed 89 grains (5.8 g) and later issues became progressively lighter."
"Groat (coin) The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence, and also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling. The name has also been applied to any thick or large coin, such as the ""Groschen"" (""grosso""), a silver coin issued by Tyrol in 1271 and Venice in the 13th century, which was the first of this general size to circulate in the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe. The immediate ancestor to the groat was the French ""gros tournois"" or"
"a groat per month deducted from the wages of the seamen. The Navy's wages did not rise between 1653 and 1797 (see Spithead and Nore mutinies), during which time the ordinary seaman was paid 19 shillings, as was the chaplain. The word ""groat"" has entered into a number of English and Scottish expressions, many of them now archaic. In the north of England, there is the saying ""Blood without groats is nothing"" meaning ""family without fortune is worthless."" The allusion is to black pudding, which consists chiefly of blood and oats formed into a sausage and cut into slices. ""Not"
"Fourpence (British coin) The pre-decimal fourpence (4d), sometimes known as a groat (from Dutch ""grootpennig"" = ""big penny"") or fourpenny bit, was a coin worth one sixtieth of a pound sterling, or four pence. The coin was also known as a joey after the MP Joseph Hume, who spoke in favour of its introduction. It was a revival of the pre-Union coin. Before Decimal Day in 1971 there were two hundred and forty pence in one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in terms of"
"outgoing 'Bit' coin which was equal to one quarter of a guilder. When the groat coin ceased to circulate in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a special request was made in 1888 for groats to be struck for use in the British West Indies and British Guiana. These were first struck in 1891. From 1917 they were struck exclusively for use in British Guiana. Spanish, Mexican, and Colombian silver dollars continued to circulate alongside the British sterling coinage until 1876 when these dollar coins were demonetised. The Spanish dollar unit should not be confused"
"the only denomination of coin minted in England for 500 years, until the attempted gold coinage issue of King Henry III in 1257 and a few halfpennies and farthings in 1222, the introduction of the groat by King Edward I in 1279, under whom the halfpenny and farthing were also reintroduced, and the later issues of King Edward III. At the time of the 1702 London Mint Assay by Sir Isaac Newton, the silver content of British coinage was defined to be one troy ounce of sterling silver for 62 pence. Therefore, the value of the monetary pound sterling was"
"an Edward I groat, still held by the family, has a triangular-shaped stone of a dark red colour set into it. The coin is kept in a gold box given by Queen Victoria to General Lockhart. It can supposedly cure rabies, haemorrhage, and various animal ailments. The coin was exempted from the Church of Scotland's prohibition on charms and was lent to the citizens of Newcastle during the reign of King Charles I to protect them from the plague. A sum of between £1,000 and £6,000 was pledged for its return. The legend of the Lee Penny gave rise to"
"Some groats continued to circulate in Scotland until the 20th century. At times in the past, silver twopenny coins have been called ""half-groats"". The groat ceased to be minted in the United Kingdom in 1856, but in 1888 a special request was made for a colonial variety to be minted for use in British Guiana and the British West Indies. The groat remained in circulation in British Guiana right up until that territory adopted the decimal system in 1955. In the 1600s and 1700s, chaplains were employed in English Navy ships of war by the captain, and paid out of"
"the Troy units of weight—the troy ounce used to this day for weighting precious metals. Edward I (1272–1307) broke the link between a coin's value and its weight when he debased the English coinage by introducing a groat (four pence) which weighed of 89 grains rather than the expected 96 grains. The groat was further devalued in the 1350s when its weight was reduced to 72 grains. During Saxon times land was measured both in terms of its economic value and in terms of its size. The Domesday Book used the hide, an economic unit of measure. In other references"
"fourpence as payment, whereas previously they would often receive a sixpence without the demand for change. The threepence was introduced in 1845 to ""afford additional convenience for the purpose of change"". This new coin proved much more popular than the fourpence, and by the early 1850s it was decided there was no need for both coins. The final regular issue of groats was made in 1855, although proofs were minted in 1857 and 1862. In 1888 a special request was made for a colonial variety to be minted for use in British Guiana and the British West Indies. The groat"
"groat of Tours, which was known as the ""groot"" (Dutch for ""great"" or ""large"") in the Netherlands. The name groat also refers to a range of other European coins such as those of the Italian peninsula known as a ""grosso"" including the grosso of Venice and the Kraków grosz. Marco Polo referred to the groat in recounts of his travels to East Asia when describing the currencies of the Yuan Empire. His descriptions were based on the conversion of 1 bezant = 20 groats = tornesel. It was after the French silver coin had circulated in England that an English"
"the Dutch coinage, and also widely throughout the Eastern Caribbean. The dollar unit of account therefore acted as a convenient intermediary conversion unit between sterling and the outgoing guilder unit. The dollar unit was equivalent to 4 shillings 2 pence sterling and replaced the guilder unit at a rate of 1 dollar = 3⅛ guilders, i.e. £1 = $4.8 = 15 guilders. A particular feature of the circulation of British silver coins in British Guiana was the popularity of the 4d (four pence) coin, known as the groat. This was a direct consequence of its equivalence to the very popular"
"worth a groat"" is an old saying meaning ""not worth a penny"", i.e. worthless. Benjamin Franklin, in his book, ""Necessary Hints"" gives the following thrifty advice: Beatrix Potter's ""The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"" features the following riddle: The answer is ""a cherry."" In ""The Graveyard Book"" by Neil Gaiman, a character recounts the paying of groats to people who held her underwater to determine if she was a witch: According to Hawkins' ""History of the Silver Coins of England"", groats were also known as ""Joeys"", This refers to the Victorian fourpenny piece. The mention of cab fares is related to"
"two grooves were for fractional counting. The abacus was made of a metal plate where the beads ran in slots. The size was such that it could fit in a modern shirt pocket. The lower groove marked I indicates units, X tens, and so on up to millions. The beads in the upper shorter grooves denote fives—five units, five tens, ""etc."", essentially in a bi-quinary coded decimal place value system. Computations are made by means of beads which would probably have been slid up and down the grooves to indicate the value of each column. The upper slots contained a"
"coin in circulation from the 8th century until the 13th century. Although some fractions of the penny were struck (see farthing and halfpenny), it was more common to find pennies cut into halves and quarters to provide smaller change. Very few gold coins were struck, with the gold penny (worth 20 silver pence) a rare example. However, in 1279, the ""groat"", worth 4d, was introduced, with the half groat following in 1344. 1344 also saw the establishment of a gold coinage with the introduction (after the failed gold florin) of the ""noble"" worth six shillings and eight pence (6/8) (i.e."
"A grain is 20 mites, a mite is 24 droits, a droit is 20 perits, a perit is 24 blanks. In Scotland, the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh used a system in multiples of sixteen. (""See Assay-Master's Accounts, 1681–1702, on loan from the Incorporation to the National Archives of Scotland"".) Thus, there were 16 drops to the troy ounce, 16 ounces to the troy pound, and 16 pounds to the troy stone. The Scots had several other ways of measuring precious metals and gems, but this was the common usage for gold and silver. The Pound was"
"as gift products such as gold coins set into jewellery. Before decimalisation in 1971, the pound was divided into 240 pence rather than 100, though it was rarely expressed in this way. Rather it was expressed in terms of pounds, shillings and pence, where: Thus: £1 = 240 pence. The penny was further subdivided at various times, though these divisions vanished as inflation made them irrelevant: Using the example of five shillings and sixpence, the standard ways of writing shillings and pence were: The sum of 5/6 would be spoken as ""five shillings and sixpence"" or ""five and six"". The"
"""groat"", although the coin of that name was withdrawn in the 19th century. A sixpenny bit was a ""tanner"", known in Australia as a ""zack"". One shilling was a ""bob"", and a pound a ""nicker"" or a ""quid"". The term ""quid"" is said to originate from the Latin phrase quid pro quo. A pound note was also sometimes called simply ""a note"" (e.g., ""You owe me 50 notes""). A ten-shilling note was sometimes known as ""half a bar"". A two-shillings-and-sixpence piece, in use until the introduction of decimal currency, was known as ""half a crown"" or ""a half crown"". Crown"
"it bore the portrait of the monarch on the obverse. Before Decimal Day in 1971, there were 240 pence in one pound sterling. There were four farthings in a penny, 12 pence made a shilling, and 20 shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in terms of shillings and pence, e.g., three shillings and six pence (3/6), pronounced ""three and six"" or ""three and sixpence"". Values of less than a shilling were simply written in pence, e.g., 8d, pronounced ""eightpence"". A price with a farthing in it would be written like this: (19/), pronounced ""nineteen"
"the penny had not changed much in 500 years, so the groat (4d), halfpenny, and farthing were successfully introduced. Finally there was the problem of clipping, for which the Jews were blamed. In response to all these pressures, a completely new coinage was struck in 1279 with a different design which made clipping much easier to detect. Millions of coins were struck at London and Canterbury and the public could take their old, underweight, short and long-cross pennies to the mint and exchange them for new coins of the correct weight and fineness. This exchange also served as a form"
"Prague groschens"", or more than 30 kg of silver. The Peace of Thorn settled the ransoms ""en masse"": the Polish King released all the captives in exchange for ""100,000 kopas of Prague groschen"", amounting to nearly of silver payable in four annual installments. In the case of the failure to pay one of the installments, the indemnities were to rise by an additional 720,000 Prague groschen. The ransom was equal to £850,000, ten times the annual income of King of England. In order to raise the money needed to pay the ransom, Grand Master Heinrich von Plauen needed to raise"
"unit was the silver lira, which was 5 grams heavy. There were multiples of £2 (10 grams of silver) and £5 (25 grams of silver), and precious coins of £20 (6.45 grams of gold) and £40 (12.9 grams of gold). The lira was basically divided in 100 cents, and there were coins of 1 cent (2.1 grams of copper), 3 cents (6.3 grams of copper), and 10 cents (2 grams of poor silver), but following the tradition, there was a division in 20 soldi, with coins of 1 soldo (10.5 grams of copper, in practice 5 cents), 5 soldi (1.25"
"(£10). There was a prize of 125 francs (£5) for the best single round. Vardon led after the first round with a 72, a stroke ahead of Braid and Massy. Vardon and Gassiat scored 71 in the afternoon. Vardon's total of 143 was 4 ahead of Massy and a further stroke ahead of Braid and Gassiat who tied for third place. The next morning, 18 February, there was an 18-hole fourball stroke-play competition. This resulted in a tie between the Braid/Gassiat and Callaway/Massy pairings who both scored 68. Covington and Vardon came third, a stroke behind with Bomboudiac and Taylor"
"new strips were also added, ""Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green"" and ""London B412"". The price increased to 99p across the whole UK. The third was the least major revamp. The background was changed from one colour behind the logo and another behind the Dennis strip to one single colour or a pattern, such as red and black stripes. New fonts were being used on the front cover, and the ""Pocket money price"" logo had been changed to a large ""WOW! 99p"" which was usually placed in the top corners. No new strips were added this time, but the amount"
"not used in the monetary system of his fictional world of Westeros, author George R. R. Martin uses the term to refer to things of little worth in his series, ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". For example, in the fourth book, ""A Feast for Crows"", Cersei Lannister, in reference to Margaery Tyrell, thinks: ""For half a groat she would have slapped the blushing bride right there upon the dais, in view of half the court."" Groats are the currency in the 1992 game ""Lure of the Temptress"", and were used by the common folk of the town Turnvale. Groat"
"The weight was reduced to 72 grains (three pennyweights or 4.7 g) under Edward III, 60 grains (3.9 g) under Henry IV, and 48 grains (3.1 g) under Edward IV. From 1544 to 1560 (the weight being reduced to 32 grains (2.1 g) in 1559) the silver fineness was less than sterling, and after the 1561 issue they were not generally issued for circulation again for about a hundred years. From the reigns of Charles II to George III, groats (by now often known as fourpences) were issued on an irregular basis for general circulation, the only years of mintage"
"£90 a year clear, of which the players paid £14. 10s. 0d (16%). Their lease comprised two pieces of land separated by a lane, four gardens and various structures on one piece and three gardens and various structures on the other. Adjoining these pieces of land on both east and west were the other parts of the Brends' property, on which were numerous buildings during the whole history of the Globe. The whole property in 1601, two years after the Globe opened, comprised ""small & ruinous howses"" in thirty tenants' hands (two of whom represented the Globe), according to a"
"a costume relating to that week's theme. The changing themes were dropped for the final series where a more generic stage set was re-used each week. In part one of the show, three couples have the chance to win up to £1,000 in the ""1,000 to 1 quiz"". The first round consisted of a maximum of 10 questions (in 30 seconds), each correct answer being worth £10 (or in the first series £1, but with three rounds available). Passes were permitted but there was no opportunity to return to the question. Each member of the couple answered in turn with"
"£14.95, £21.95). All prize values were rounded off to the nearest pound before being subtracted from the score of the player who purchased the prize (later on, prizes were in full pounds, like £8, £12, £15, £22, and increased as the show progressed). Each instant bargain was hidden behind a curtain; the announcer would mention the price, and then the curtain would open as the prize was revealed. If a contestant buzzed in before the curtain opened, it was declared ""No Sale"", the contestant would have the price deducted from his/her score (but not win the prize), and the other"
"transported more easily. Each rosette is numbered 1–12 to make sure the lilies are re-attached correctly. The crown is in both height and diameter. The nuptial crown is first documented in the inventory of King Richard II of England as having 12 fleurons, but a rosette was missing. At the time, it was decorated with 91 pearls, 63 balas rubies, 47 sapphires, 33 diamonds, and 5 emeralds. An additional 7 pearls and 1 emerald had been taken off the fleurons. The crown weighed 5 marks 7 oz, or just under 1 kilogram, and was valued at £246 13s 4d. It"
"being a factor), with the highest-scoring contestant on one spin or a combination of two spins going through to the Range Finder, and any contestant who scored 100 on one spin or a combination of two spins would win £1,000. The ranges for the Range Finder in this version went from £1,000 to £5,000. (Unlike the other three versions, this version did not involve any bonus spin.) Although, it was only in a half-hour format with three pricing games per show (the Crowther show had been an hour long with six games), it still gave away more valuable prizes each"
"the fact that the standard minimum was fourpence, so many passengers paid with a sixpenny piece, allowing the cabbie to keep the twopence change as a tip. The slang name ""Joey"" was transferred to the silver threepenny pieces in use in the first third of the twentieth century. In ""A Little Princess"" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sara Crewe picks up a fourpenny piece from the street and uses it to buy buns. The original story was set in 1888. John o' Groats, a place name in the north of Scotland, is not derived from ""groat"" but is a corruption of"