I think this is a British stamp, but I couldn't find it on the Internet. I'm guessing it's from 1969. Anybody know what the 1/6 means?
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The abbreviation for shilling is s, from the Latin solidus, the name of a Roman coin. Often it was informally represented by a slash, standing for a long s: e.g., "1/6" would be 1 shilling and sixpence, often pronounced "one and six" (and equivalent to 18d; the shilling itself was valued at 12d).
I had a feeling it was something like this - still - we should probably make a contribution of 1/6 to Wikipedia sometime.
Posted by: Isabella Bannerman | 01/03/2013 at 08:16 AM