You can't spend American currency in England. If you change it into British currency it's worth about 5 pence. How much is 5 pence
The British Imperial currency system of Pounds, Shillings and Pence is now a long redundant currency and subsequently has no exchange rate with any other currency. At the time of Britains changeover to decimal currency in 1971, 8 Shillings and 4 Pence converted to about 42 New Pence.
There are 100 British Pence in One British Pound. If you refer to predecimal British currency, 100 old pence would equal 8 Shillings and 4 Pence.
If you refer to 1 Shilling and 10 Pence (1s 10d or 1/10) in predecimal currency, it converted to 9.16 Pence in decimal currency.
Under pre-decimal currency in the UK, a shilling was worth twelve pence, and a sixpence worth six pence. The UK adopted decimal currency in 1971.
Formerly a shilling, now 5 pence.
As of the current exchange rate (which fluctuates daily), 1 British pound is approximately equal to 1.37 US dollars. Therefore, a 10 pence coin is equivalent to 0.1 pounds. Converting this amount to US dollars, 10 pence would be worth around 14 cents in US currency.
It would be worth 12.5 pence.
3 cents
The British Shilling is part of a redundant currency and no longer has an exchange rate with other currencies. At the time of Britains changeover to decimal currency in 1971, the Shilling converted to 5 New Pence.
In British currency, the value of a shilling in 1830 was equivalent to 12 pence. Therefore, a pension of 30 shillings would be calculated as follows: 30 shillings * 12 pence/shilling = 360 pence. So, a pension of 30 shillings in British currency from 1830 would be equivalent to 360 pence.
All years of issue of the British 20 Pence coin are still in circulation and are worth 20 Pence in Britain and its dependencies. As at 14-May-2012, 20 Pence British is worth about $0.32 USD.