Old Money

Six rounds a game. Every price is real, from Samuel Pepys’s diary or Celia Fiennes.
Pay: tap coins to put them on the counter; tap a coin on the counter to take it back. Press Pay when the counter holds the price.
Twelve pence’ worth of small coins on the counter turn into a shilling, and twenty shillings’ worth into a sovereign, a pound.
Some rounds ask you to read a price in £ s. d., to add up a bill, or to give change.

With a keyboard, the arrow keys move along the coins and Backspace takes back the last one.

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