18 A Decimal Scale of Money proposed. 



'toV^, -U, tV (Two Shillings), 1 {Pound, Sterling), 10, lOO, 

 1000, 10,000, 100,000 (Plum), 1,000,000 (Million, Sterling), 

 &;c. 



' One hiindiedtli of a Pound (Vot'i f'f t^^^'o Shillings, or of 48 

 half-pence), is so near to 5 half-pence, and -,'u'^li o^ these last 

 l)eing a Farthing, no serious inconvenience or injustice could 

 follow, on the enacting of the above decimal divisions of the 

 Pound, by a})propri;ite names, and issuing Coin corresponding 

 thereto, to permit, for one or two vears, a Farthing to pass {in 

 change only), for -p^'^-„dth of a Pound, and 5 half-pence (or 2Td 

 of the present coin), instead of the -j-j}-dth of a Pound, before the 

 present Copper Money need wholly be culled in ; and so, with- 

 out any harm,Sixpences,Shillings,Eighteenpences,Half-Crowns, 

 and Three-Shilling Pieces, might, for a time at least, continue 

 to circulate with the new Decimal Coin, as the 2'-100dths, 

 5-lOOdths, 7i-100dths, l|-10ths, and Ij-lOths, re'spectively, 

 of the Pound Sterling. 



' This reformation of our Money, and enabling all Accounts 

 to be kept in one column, instead of three, just as the Pounds are 

 at present, and rendering unnecessary, '■ P^eduction of Money,' 

 now so formidable a rule to Youths, in our Elementary Books 

 of Arithmetic, and so tronldesome in business, is indeed so easy 

 to be accomplished, that it were extremely desirable Govern- 

 ment would take it up, separately from, and previously toj re- 

 forming the Measures and Weights, on similar principles.' 



*' And in the concluding Chapter, p. 681, Note, now printing 

 off (I4th June), after eomc reuiarjis in favour of proposing and 

 adopting decimal scales, and these only, whenever Weights, 

 Measures and Monies shall he attempted to he altered, from their 

 present denominations, his remarks are as follows ; viz." 



' The call now (June 1816) so strongly expressed, for a Coin- 

 age of Pound Pieces of Gold, instead of Guineas (which once 

 prevailed amongst u^) comes most opportunely, for the adoption 

 abovemeutioned; and I would beg earnestly to press on the atten- 

 tion of His Majesty's Ministers, tiic propriety and the great advan- 

 tages which vvill result, from accompanying the issue of tiiese new 

 Found-pieces y by moderate numbers of Tenth-pieces, Hundredth' 

 pieces, and Thovsandth-pitces, of a Pound, for circulation, alovo 

 tvith the present (or new) Silver and Copper Coins, as recom- 

 mended in p. 465, until the Public are fully habituated to their 

 relations, and see Ijy use, the utility of a decimal scale of Money, 

 agreeing witli that of our numeration and arithmetic, as ere long, 

 I hope, it will also do, with all our Weights and Measures.' 



*' The present and new Coins would then stand related as 

 follows : viz. 



Gold. 



