How much is a quid and a Bob?

A pound is worth about $2.00 USD.
How much is a Quid worth?
How much is a Bob worth.

A quid is the same, it's slang for £1. So £5 would be called 5 quid (or a fiver, but lets not confuse things here!). A bob is old money, about 10p i think, we don't use it anymore.

Quid = £1.00 or 20 shillings or 240 old pence or 100 new pence.
Bob = One shilling or 12 old pence or 5 new pence.

There were slang names for some of the coins. A shilling was a bob. Boy scouts would collect money by doing bob-a-job, meaning simple chores such as washing the car or cleaning shoes for a shilling. People would sometimes say, ironically, "That must be worth a few bob!" meaning, that must be worth a lot of money. (Now we would say "That must be worth a few quid!") Sixpence was a tanner. An old-fashioned expression for a thrupeeny bit was a joey. A pound was a quid, which was always singular, so £5 was five quid. We still use 'quid', but apart from that, modern coins don't have names, either officially or as slang. In Liverpool the 50p piece was called a 'Harold', (Wilson), brought out during his term of office, because it had seven sides and two faces. The later pound coin was called a 'Maggie' (Thatcher), again during the term of office, that she was just common, but attemping to be a sovereign.

Now as you originally asked your question, How much is a quid and a Bob?, added together these are a Guinea, a coin with a value of £1.00 and 1 Shilling. The Guinea was extensively used in the buying and selling of horses and other livestock, even after the coin was withdrawn from circulation. The purpose or idea was that the £1.00 went to the seller and the shilling went to the auctioneer. Another little snippit of useless information for you - back in the good old days there were US$ 4.00 to the £1.00. The old half crown coin, 2 shillings and 6 old pence, being worth 1/8 of £1.00, was called 'Half a Dollar'.

Value of £sd Coins pre decimalisation 15 February 1971
4 farthings = 1 penny (1d)
2 ha'pence = 1 penny (1d)
3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d)
6 pence = 1 sixpence (6d)
12 pence = 1 shilling (1s)
2 shillings = 1 florin (2s)
2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d)

A Quid is an English slang for Pound, They are both the same (like Dollar and Buck).
A 'Bob' is an old term for a shilling which in todays money is 5 pence.
The term 'Bob' is not commonly used now but is still used as multiples of 5pences as in '5 Bob' for 25 pence and '10 Bob' for 50 pence.

A quid is a pound £1.00
A bob is a shilling in old money, equivalent to 5 pence now.

a quid is £1,00
a bob is 5 pence as in our old
money 20 shillings to the pound

One pound & 1 Shilling. 100p & 5p

A quid is a slang term for an english pound (currency not weight). Bob is slang for an old english shilling.
Currently it's 100 pence = one pound.
A shilling would be now worth about 5 pence today.
It used to be 20 shillings made a pound.A shilling was 12 pennies. So a pound used to have 240 pennies. Notice the different spelling of the modern pence and the old pennies.

A quid is a pound sterling
a bob used to be one shilling (ten bob = 50p

A quid is a pound and a bob is a shilling (5p).

A quid is a pound therefore current dollar rate.
It's a slang term.
A bob is a shilling, which is no longer used as currency.[pretty much 5 new pence]
it used to be 12 old pennies.
12 pennies = i shilling [ie bob]
20 shillings = 1 pound [ie a quid]

Umm, yeah...

What Chariot Mender just said :-)

Well answered Chariot!

but in brief...

A quid is the same as the GB pound, so $2.00USD
A bob is now 5 pence, so $0.10USD / 10 cents

A quid is another word for a pound

A bob was a shilling (20 to the £) = 5p so 10cents

A Quid is slang for a I pound and a bob is a shilling but that was before the UK went over to decimal coinage
I pound is made up of 100 new pence,
And a bob used to 12 old pennies but when it changed to decimal it now has 10 new pence,
The coins in use in the UK are £1.00 =100p
£2.00 coin we have a 50p coin and 20p coin,5p coin, 2p coin 1p coin
Bank notes are £5, £10, £20, £50

Oh what a mixed up bunch you pull up
Go with oisian88
But why go back its bad enough as it is

a quid is a pound and a bob is 10pence is spoking in scottish

A quid is one british pound. A bob used to mean something else but now that means a pound too eg ten bob is ten pounds (or ten quid).

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