{"id":481,"date":"2025-10-12T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:29:36","slug":"money-changers-working-out-regency-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/12\/money-changers-working-out-regency-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Changers: Working out Regency Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Money was undergoing a change during the Regency. It began during the early part of the Napoleonic wars, in 1797 to be exact, when the guinea was discontinued officially. Guineas were still in circulation, though, and people spoke in terms of items costing X number of guineas.<\/p>

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So what was a guinea? 21 shillings.<\/p>\n

Clear as mud?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s break this down to the simplest terms possible.<\/p>\n

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1807 Farthing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farthing (as in \u201cI don\u2019t give a farthing for that.) \u00bc pence<\/p>\n

Hapenny or half penny: \u00bd penny or pence<\/p>\n

Penny: a penny or pence shown as amount in numbers with a d.<\/p>\n

Tuppence: two pennies<\/p>\n

Thrupence: three pennies<\/p>\n

Sixpence: six pennies or half a shilling<\/p>\n

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1816 Shilling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shilling: 12 pennies r pence and shown as amount in numbers with an S<\/p>\n

Half Crown: 30 pence or 2S 6D<\/p>\n

\"1819
1819 Crown Piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crown: 60d or 5s<\/p>\n

Pound: 20s<\/p>\n

Pony: Slang term for 25 pounds<\/p>\n

Monkey: Slang term for 500 pounds.<\/p>\n

Sovereign: In 1816, Great Britain went on the gold standard and issued the sovereign, which was a pound in a gold coin.<\/p>\n

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South Facade of Bank of England, London, 19th Century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although bank notes were issued for convenience, they were not legal tender as we think of paper money nowadays. That didn\u2019t occur until a little over a decade after the Regency ended. Bank notes were promissory notes saying that the bearer could exchange it for the face value of the note in gold coins. This was one way in which money passed from bank to bank.<\/p>\n

To explain the banking system and how it worked before even telegrams could be exchanged to verify accounts is a complicated subject that will have to wait for another post.<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2012-04-09 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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Money was undergoing a change during the Regency. It began during the early part of the Napoleonic wars, in 1797 to be exact, when the guinea was discontinued officially. Guineas were still in circulation, though, and people spoke in terms of items costing X number of guineas. So what was a guinea? 21 shillings. Clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,1155],"tags":[60,572,61,62],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-money","category-the_numbers","tag-bank-of-england-regency","tag-money","tag-pounds","tag-shillings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}