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seemex
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Doctor Bill from Ship QE 1947
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I have this bill from from the Queen Elizabeth on a trans Atlantic Crossing in 1947. I wonder if someone can read the part below where it says $6. I would imagine its the amount in British pounds. I've tried to find the exchange rate for 1947 between US dollars and pounds and I think it may have been around US$1 = 2.70 pounds
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Hunter, Southam Thomson, White, Cock, Beesley
Andy J2022
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(or £1 - 10 - 0)
That is, one pound and ten shillings
ShaunJ
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There were still $4 to the pound sterling in those days so the sterling equivalent of $6 was £1-10-0 as written here. One pound and ten shillings.
UK Census info. Crown Copyright, from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
seemex
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Andy and Shaun,
I thought it looked like that, but I'm not very familiar with the British currency, although I do recall now that rate around $4. Thanks so very much to you both.
Brian
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