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What does it mean "Two-and-six???
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two-and-six, my dear friend, positively for this occasion only. Half-a-crown is a delightful coin. Two-and-six.
Going at two-and-six! For the last time at two-and-six!'
Dec 23, 2017 11:30 AM
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Thanks a lot. I was reading an old English novel of Dickens, I was mixed of this. So, useful help. 


December 23, 2017
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Back in the 1960's Britain had a different system of currency.  And this term refers to old English coins.  Two shillings and six-pence was an amount of money (we had shillings and pennies, instead of pounds and pence).


December 23, 2017
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