It's a start.

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So, Tim, is this your website? Nice job...speaking about jobs...how's yours going?

 

looks nice maybe you could but a picture next to each name on your whos on the coins list. not a picture of a coin but a picture/painting of the person

 

I would think, regarding the penny:

1. You should explain early pennies were silver.
2. The term "penny" is from the German "pfenning"
3. Its initial, (d), stands for denarius
4. I am not sure they have been made for 1500 years. Were official "pennies" struck right after the fall of the Western Roman empire? THis is a question. I have seen some from the 10th century, but am unsure if they go back earlier than that.

 

My job is going fine. Thanks for the info medora man, I'm leaving the silver penny part out for now until I actually obtain one, I'm only covering coins I have for now. They still make silver pennies, I think ,but they are called "Maundy money". I'm not sure what year pennies were circulating as silver, I know they made the copper ones with the silver ones for many years.

 

silver pennies back in the 1600s

 

BTW, what good were farthings? I know the old english way to price things was £ /s/d. So if something was a half penny (rather cheap), you could use a half penny. A farthing is 1/4 a penny, did they ever price stuff in fractions of a penny?

 

Around here, Charlemagne introduced the "LSD" system (libra-solidus-denarius) in 790 or so; a setup that the British continued to use until 1971. Before him, Pippin/Pepin issued this coin (scroll down a little) probably from ~750. So it is safe to say that "post-Roman" denarius/pfennig coins have been around for more than 1250 years. Not quite 1500 but not bad either.

Christian

 

Now here is another interesting find. The farthings minted from 1897 to 1917 were artificially darkened because people were passing them off as half sovereigns. However, the half sovereign was a different design, and of course gold in color. Also, the farthing clearly bears the denomination "farthing". So did people gold plate farthings and pass them off as half sovereigns?

 

prolly like the no cent v nickle here

 

Here is a half farthing I own -

 

Sweet coin! Mintage of 6,451,000. Worth about $50-$80 as shown.

 

Not bad, though I doubt the Carolinginians nor the Merovinginians really called them English pennies.

 

Added some more, check it out.