What does it mean "Two-and-six??? Not bad! Make ittwo-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

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What does it mean "Two-and-six???

Not bad! Make it

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!'

2017年12月23日 11:30

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Thanks a lot. I was reading an old English novel of Dickens, I was mixed of this. So, useful help.

2017年12月23日

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).

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