"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: For Keith Willshaw...
From: Darrell Earnshaw ve
Date: 6/7/04 9:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Cub Driver wrote:

An all-time low? When I was a student at Manchester, the exchange rate
was $2.40. Not too many years earlier it was $5.00.

I stand corrected - sorry.



It was $5.00 all through WW II.


Which in turn led to the British slang term
'half-a-dollar' for the 2 shilling piece.

Keith