Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/28 - A Farthings Puzzle/Solution

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $28$

A Farthings Puzzle

Find a sum of money expressed in pounds, shillings and pence

which, when you take the currency indicators and punctuation away, reads the number that you get when you reduce the sum to farthings.

Solution

$\pounds 12, 12 \shillings 8 \oldpence$ which is $12 \, 128$ farthings.

Sources

• 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $28$. -- The Farthings Puzzle