£1.05

In the good old days, before this filthy "decimalisation" money, a guinea was one pound and one shilling. Rather impractical but none the less an elegant measure of currency. A shilling equates to 5 filthy new pence so the answer is as above.

Roll on the revolution.

3 Responses to “what are guineas ? an amount asked for horses in a horse sale?”

  1. £1.05

    In the good old days, before this filthy "decimalisation" money, a guinea was one pound and one shilling. Rather impractical but none the less an elegant measure of currency. A shilling equates to 5 filthy new pence so the answer is as above.

    Roll on the revolution.
    References :

  2. geoff the skier is spot on with the answer
    References :

  3. a guinea is pre decimal money – 21 shilling – £1 & 1shilling
    References :

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

Leave a Reply

You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Copyright © 2007 Seguros Agropecuarios All rights reserved. .