No matter how long the guinea has been gone from our pockets, the memories remain fresh in C8 minds, sometimes pleasantly, sometime traumatically, and leading on to some other fiscal thoughts.

Marli Davies of Wentworth Falls remembers that, “The fees for my education at an all-girls school in the 1940s was twenty-one guineas per term, and three terms per year. Imagine that now?”

Guineas brought music to the fingers and ears of David McKay of Blaxland, who says, “My parents found a large black piano for me at Marks Point in 1957. It was lowered with ropes from the upstairs verandah and cost 90 guineas. Nanna said she’d pay the £90 if Mum and Dad paid the 90 shillings. Is there a symbol for a guinea?”

Ron Vernon of Thornleigh agrees with Daniel Flesch about the 99¢ ploy. “When I was young

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