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Re: So 26 million won is $22,000

"When I was a kid you could get 5 or more dollars to the pound."

Hence, as the exchange rate passed through 4$ to the £ the phrase "half a dollar" was used to describe the half-crown coin - a crown being five shillings in old money.

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