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(Redirected from Old money)
★ 'Old money' refers to families who have been wealthy for at least three generations, as a term distinguishing them from the ''nouveau riche'' and ''parvenus'' (''see template'').
★ 'Old money' refers in the United Kingdom to the pre-decimal currency of pounds, shillings (or 'bob') and pence. It had abbreviation £sd. It also had guineas, crowns, sovereigns, (rare) gold sovereigns, halfpennies, and farthings. There were 240 pennies in one old pound, and 12 pennies in a shilling. ''See also: British coinage''.
★ 'Old Money' can refer, informally, to any British imperial measurement (and sometimes to Fahrenheit temperatures).
★ 'Old money' refers to families who have been wealthy for at least three generations, as a term distinguishing them from the ''nouveau riche'' and ''parvenus'' (''see template'').
★ 'Old money' refers in the United Kingdom to the pre-decimal currency of pounds, shillings (or 'bob') and pence. It had abbreviation £sd. It also had guineas, crowns, sovereigns, (rare) gold sovereigns, halfpennies, and farthings. There were 240 pennies in one old pound, and 12 pennies in a shilling. ''See also: British coinage''.
★ 'Old Money' can refer, informally, to any British imperial measurement (and sometimes to Fahrenheit temperatures).
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