What was the currency used in George Orwells book 1984?

Answer 1

Dollar

p.9 "He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty."

p.71 "

'For Hate Week. You know-the house-by-house fund.

I'm treasurer for our block. We're making an all-out effort-

going to put on a tremendous show. I tell you, it won't be my

fault if old Victory Mansions doesn't have the biggest outfit

of flags in the whole street. Two dollars you promised me.'

p.81

"

Winston was writing in his diary:

It was three years ago. It was on a dark evening, in a

narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations. She

was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp

that hardly gave any light. She had a young face, painted

very thick. It was really the paint that appealed to me, the

whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips. Party

women never paint their faces. There was nobody else in the

street, and no telescreens. She said two dollars."

And others....