Talk:Quarter guinea

Should the infobox value stay or go?

The tagging of these non-decimal coins in a decimal format is in my opinion pretty frustrating and historically dubious. It is obvious no common ground or satisfractor compromise can possibly be reached, so I suggest just taking "value" out of the infobox completely. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 05:45, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

:You are confusing two issues again. £0.0125 is just a number, but it is one that is meaningful to a modern and international readership that has no familiarity with £sd counting. That this happens also to be similar to the post-1971 format of presenting sterling is essentially coincidental. It is not "historically dubious", any more than it is to give the modern SI equivalents of apothecary's weights and measures. The real issue is that the purchasing power of a golden guinea was vastly more than that of £1.05 today. The only way I can see to resolve that issue is to add a footnote that uses {{inflation}} to provide that purchasing power information. To take the value item out of infoboxes solves nothing. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 07:45, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion centralised at talk:Pound sterling#"Value =" in infoboxes for historic sterling coinage --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:13, 22 July 2022 (UTC)