Members: 
 
     The best source I know of on the British Money System is 
Sir Albert Edgar Feaveryear's THE POUND STERLING; A HISTORY OF ENGLISH 
MONEY, 2nd revised edition, Oxford, Clarendon, 1963, 446pp.  This book 
will not only answer your questions, but will provide you with 
fascinating summer reading. 
 
Robin Neill 
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