Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squareHakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 hours agoDuring thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.
During thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.