Them were the days...

what on earth is 4 D

 

A third of a shilling.

 

Real money - pre decimalisation.

Equivalent of about £13,128,111 in todays money.

We won that game by the way.

 

I thought shillings were in the victorian era, my history is terrible

 

Christ, you're right, you are awful at history, considering Shillings and the such were phased out in the early 70s...


EDIT: Ah, I see OLM beat me to it.

 

That's just what I said, I can't say I was around in the 1970s, but now I know, ill be sure to pass the I nationality test now

and what currency did victorians use? I believe it was shillings, so am I wrong really eh quilly willy

 

It means the Fourth Dimension.

It's where Tickles lives.

 

Nah, Tickles lives in the Twilight Zone

 

They're the same thing, aren't they?

 

A special colour programme an all !

I've got , somewhere a copy of the Tiger Rag from November 1949 one article is headed ' Where are the missing 35,000 ? ' bemoaning the fact that 'only' 8,000 people were turning up at reserve matches when our average gate at that stage was 43,000 !!
We finished the season just above half way and our average had dropped to just over 37,000. The significance of this figure is that only Sheffield Weds and Leeds have had larger average attendances , both when in the old first division , whilst we were then in DIvision 2. Had we got promoted in 1949/50 it is highly likely that we would have averaged well over 45,000 or even more in the first division which would have been significantly more than either Wednesday or Leeds , despite both being much larger city's .
In other words our present position as Yorkshires number one is not an aberration it's what we could and maybe should have been many years ago

 

Brought on by LSD

(see what I did there)

 

For those still in the dark about 4D (or 4d )
1 shilling is equal to today's 5p
1 shilling equalled 12 old style pennies back then so 4d being 1 third of 12 equates to 1 third of 5p and that is all for today, class dismissed

 

You was still able to use and receive the shilling and 2 shilling in your change right up until the old sized 5p and 10p were phased out - so you may well have had onem .

I remember using a silver florin from the turn of the last century to buy 2 desperate ciggies from the short lived shop on batch/cholmley street - I knew it was silver and I was a fool

 

Easier to say there were 240 pennies in a pound. So 4d is not much of 1 pound.

 

I sometimes go to markets and you can often buy bags of old style coins and if you download the list saying how much these coins (and bank notes ) are worth to collectors today you will be surprised as some coins with having a high silver content can be worth quite a bit, old type sixpences being one. But you have to be very lucky, a 1933 old style penny is worth a fortune but other pennies from that era are still worth just a penny.