(WHTM) — Buying and selling in the 13 colonies was a messy process. In theory, as British subjects, the colonists should have been using the British monetary system of pounds, shillings, and pence.
One of the lesser benefices conferred by Britain’s empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly ...
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