I think they still existed as a sort of legacy money, but weren’t actual coins (by then), although I vaguely recall auctioneers still pricing things in guineas. Would be interested to hear what else was still priced in guineas then!

I think it was 'posh stuff' like suits. I think it signified that the customer could afford to pay the 5% extra

Oh yes, well remembered!

I think race horses are still in guineas aren't they?

Not something I follow tbh: doubt whether anything is still priced in guineas but happy to be proved wrong!

I had to look. They are! Which is kind of delightful (except to anti-horseracing people) horseracingnoise.com/%ef%bf%bcwhy...

That’s delightfully quaint! Must confuse non-Brits (and Brits not of a certain age 👀)

For sure - it has very sunken treasure vibes!

Ah, that's more like Pieces of Eight... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...

Definitely - squaaaawk!!! - but guineas too. Surprised that 'shilling' and 'penny' are from the 600s! Canada's dollar coin has a loon on it, so are 'loonies'. When the two dollar coin came out there was a rearguard action to call them 'doubloonies' but sadly 'twoonies' won out.