Did the Romans use pounds, shillings and pence when they were ruling Great Britain?

Answer 1

"The main Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus (gold), the denarius (silver), the sestertius (bronze), the dupondius (bronze), and the as (copper). These were used from the middle of the third century BC until the middle of the third century, a remarkably long time.

They were still accepted as payment in Greek influenced territories, even though these regions issued their own base coinage and some silver in other denominations. Either called Greek Imperial or Roman provincial coins.

During the third century, the denarius was replaced by the double denarius, now usually known as the antoninianus or radiate, which was then itself replaced during the monetary reform of Diocletian which created denominations such as the argenteus (silver) and the follis (silvered bronze). After the reforms Roman coinage consisted mainly of the gold solidus and small bronze denominations. This trend continued to the end of the Empire in the West. See also Byzantine currency."

Answer 2

Come on -- the Romans never ruled Great Britain. They had a territory they referred to as Britannia but it didn't include anything like all of Britain. At one point they controlled up to the Antonine wall but were driven back to Hadrian's Wall which lay roughly along the Scottish border with England.

They used various denominations of currency. The currency of Britain in much more recent times comprised (until 1971) Pounds, Shillings and Pence, denoted by £ (Libri), s (Solidii) and d (Denarii).
12 pennies to one shilling
2 shillings to one florin
2/6 i.e. Two shillings and six pence to one half-crown
5/- i.e. Five shillings to one crown
20 shillings to one pound
21 shillings to one guinea

You had to be pretty good at calculating things in your head. It was very common to price things in guineas even though there were no guinea coins in circulation. For example an item might be priced at 9½ Guineas -- which works out at £9:19:6 or, in modern parlance, £9.95.

Answer 3

NO a lot of Roman stuff was dug up near where i live ,including coins but they didn`t look anything like shillings or pence and i think pounds were made out of paper before it was changed to Decimal it might have been paper for 10 shillings too

Answer 4

Don't be so very silly. Pounds, Shilling and Pence (with ha'pennies, sixpencies, groats, guineas and cubits) were invented by the very ancient Britons as a rather jolly and confusing joke.

Answer 5

The Roman system of currency changed many times but never included these denominations.

Answer 6

no they used the Roman money they brought with them and they had gold or silver shipped form Roman to the Britain.

Answer 7

They used their own currency. Cant remember what it was called tho.

Answer 8

No. sistercii, denarii etc

Answer 9

no they used cistercii.