The Puzzle of Christmas Boxes

Some years ago a man told me he had spent one hundred English silver coins in Christmas-boxes, giving every person the same amount, and it cost him exactly £1, 10s. 1d.

Can you tell just how many persons received the present, and how he could have managed the distribution?

That odd penny looks queer, but it is all right.

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