Cynthia wrote: >In this example, the costs are is 14d, where the d is denarius = a >unit of money. I'm not clear how or why the Brits kept using d to >refer to the old shilling coin. Perhaps it was a silver coin just as >the roman denarius was? I leave to someone from the other side of the >pond to explain further.
"d" means an old penny, not a shilling. "Denarius" was used as the Latin word for it, perhaps because a denarius was a small coin in Roman times? £ s d = Libri, solidi, denarii. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
