Victorian Currency In Great Britian

    
       Many people in countries outside the United States comment on how odd our system of non-metric measurements makes no sense. But when you look at the currency system of Great Britain prior to 1971 you begin to wonder if they have grounds to make fun our our system of measurements when their own currency system was so strange. Here's how their currency system broke down. Of course they had the one pound note or coin, the was often called a "bob". When you break it down to what equals a pound though that's were it gets strange. This is how it broke down:
        1 pound = 20 shillings
        1 shilling = 12 pennies
        1 penny = 4 farthings
        Now I don't know about you but our system of currency in the United States seems to be rather simple compared to the mess that was British currency up until 1971. Despite these rantings I also do agree with other countries in saying that the United States does have a messed up system of measurements and we should probably switch to metric.