koko > wrote in
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>>how much for an actual shave and a haircut?
>
> Shave and a haircut...two bits.

At the time, that would be very expensive, the 2 sols 6 deniers coin (being
the equivalent of 30 deniers) which was later reused from a half-crown (in
1857) to serve as a 25 cent piece. Its 30 pence piece (the pre-
revolutionary French and the English until 1971 used virtually the same
duodecimal and vingitesimal monetary system) was called "un trente sous" (a
thirty cent piece). The moniker was reused to refer to a 25 cent piece in
Québec as in "T'as tsi in trente sous?" (Godda quodder?) and it can still
be heard every now and then.

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