I'd been wanting to ask that same question for months,
sparked by viewings of the UK episodes of Antiques
Roadshow and other BBC sit coms. But always held off
feeling it non sequitor to the list.
Appraiser on TV:"You paid 5 PEE? How wonderful! Well,
you should have this insured for atleast 3000 sterling
I would think." antique owner: "oh. That's wonderful."
Me to my mom: "What the hell's a PEE? they pay in
produce over there? Don't they get mushed in your
pockets?"
Which reminds me, what the hell's a sterling? There
are other terms which I heard used on the BBC shows,
and would at times jot down phonetically on a notepad
when i figured they were talking about money.
Eventually, I threw the list away when I felt the list
had become to exhaustive.
I estimate that the British have as many terms for
money (slang and denomination) as Eskimos have words
for SNOW.
-Terry
my own: chinks <- Elizabethan era term for money
though not a specific denomination.
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