A few pence short of a pound
MADAM – I was amused to read in ATG No 2283 that a bronze reduction of An Athlete struggling with a Python by Lord Leighton, which will be sold by Bonhams on April 5, had been bought in 1934 for 57 shillings and 17 pence.
This amount should, of course, be properly described as 58 shillings and five pence, or, more accu…