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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Look Around You]]'' shows a machine with a price tag of £999.99½p.
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' satirized this when Steve, a bank manager, told Al about his idea about a 99 cent coin to make purchases easier. Of course Al mentions the sales tax (present in all but five US states) which is added to the price, making the coin no better than a dollar bill.
* An episode of ''The Antiques Roadshow'' featured an old Sindy doll from the 1960s. The original price was so-many shillings and 11 pence. There was 12 old pence in a shilling, making this the pre-decimal version of the trope.
** Further to this, there were twenty shillings in a pound, so something costing more than £1 would typically be priced at x pounds 19/11d - i.e. one (old) penny below the round number.
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