Skey. — On a Method of carrying out the Decimal Currency. 19 



Bookkeeping. 



Only three columns will be required, as at present, for the last 

 column always requires a decimal point on the line dividing the bron or 

 integer from the tenths (•1'3) — • 



reading 17 pounds 2 and 4 point 9, and 9 pounds 5 and 9. This last 

 can be read as 959 brons, or 95 florins and 9 brons, or as 9 pounds 5 and 9, 

 which should satisfy the most exacting in giving change, for the figures 

 all adjust themselves without calculation. 



1283 at 8f. 7b. 

 87 



8981 

 10264 



111621 

 reading 1116 pounds 2 and 1. 



How many times is 8f. 7b. contained in £1116 2f. 1b.? 



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87)1116 2 l'(1283 

 87 



246 

 174 



722 

 696 



261 

 261 



The character £ requires always placing over the integer of pounds. 



The word "pound" would be used after the pounds; the word 

 " and " after the florins ; and the word " point " before the tence. 



There is nothing to militate agamst the decimal system if the tenny 

 coins were grouped together thus : the -2 taking the place of the half- 

 penny (nearly) ; the -4 taking the place of the nenny (nearly) ; the -5 

 already mentioned as a half-way coin ; and -8. This would provide still 

 jnore efficiently, if possible, for giving change. Thus could the changes 

 be rung on all the tennies, and provide for use a single coin, if desired, 

 for paying for, say, postage- stamps, tram-fares, &c. 



Similarly, there is nothing to prevent the space between the bron and 

 the florin having a 2-bron piece inserted — for instance, one equalling 5 

 pence of our coinage. This would equal the 10-cent piece of the United 

 States, and a 4-bron piece would very nearly equal the franc of France 

 and her allies in currency. A 2-bron piece would soon be as popular as 

 the sixpence, as being near it in one coin ; of course, a 5-tenny piece 

 could be added to make its value sixpence. 



