Timeline for Is there a country that uses the term "dollar" for currency without also using "cents" as fractional monetary units?

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Jun 6, 2013 at 19:51	history	edited	John Bensin	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 537 characters in body
May 31, 2013 at 18:35	comment	added	John Bensin		@DilipSarwate It never occurred to me that the old NYSE system was based on the Spanish system. Apparently the switch occurred in 2001. Since I was ten at the time I don't have any practical experience with that trading system (I started using the stock market in '06).
May 31, 2013 at 18:10	comment	added	Dilip Sarwate		The eighth of a dollar was often used in share prices in the stock market until fairly recently, e.g. "Yesterday I was down one and seven-eighths but today I am up two and a quarter"
May 31, 2013 at 17:23	comment	added	John Bensin		@ghoppe I'd never heard the expression "two bits" to mean 25 cents (I've always just heard "two bit -something"). Thanks for pointing out the etymological basis for that and pieces of eight; I like the SE sites because I learn something new every day!
May 31, 2013 at 17:11	comment	added	ghoppe		To further expand your historical note, that's also why 25 cents is "two bits" and you hear pirates talk of "pieces of eight".
May 31, 2013 at 16:40	history	edited	John Bensin	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 53 characters in body
May 31, 2013 at 16:18	history	answered	John Bensin	CC BY-SA 3.0