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Besides being a 60s’ drug, LSD was also the acronym for pre-decimal currency of pounds (livres), shillings and pence (dinarii). This was written in a number of different ways; for example, four pounds, two shillings and three pence (‘thruppence’) could be written £4–2–3 or £4 2s 3d or 4l 2s 3d or using Roman numerals – IVl IIs IIId or even IIIJl IJs IIJd.

It is very difficult to find out how much money was worth relative to what it is today. The Bank of England has a ready reckoner and you can also study C. R. Chapman’s How Heavy, How Much and How Long? Weights, Money and Other Measures Used by our Ancestors (Lochin Publishing, 1995) and L. Mumby’s How Much is that Worth? (Phillimore for BALH, 1996).