The king received a civil list of 103,227 pounds sterling.
This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency.
Each court was limited to the value of fifty pounds sterling.
That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days.
This change in these values does not mean that there has been an appreciation of sterling.
The impact of sterling has helped core inflation hold up this year.
Today a similar note would be valued in excess of £10,000 sterling.
The English have a price of ten pounds sterling on my head.
In a town the size of Sterling, everyone knew everyone else, and always had.
The effect of sterling on prices has yet to be felt and will be quite small.