Pounds, shillings, and pence: a history of English coinage

Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to and use promo code: ’lindybeige’. I talk for a bit the history of English coinage, and the problems of maintaining a good currency. Once or twice I might stray off topic, but I end with an explanation of why the system worked so well. Picture credits: 40 librae weight Martinvl, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Sceat K series, and others By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. , CC BY-SA 3.0,