Coins with fractional face values

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How about a half puffin, sorry for the pics of pics in photobucket

 

East India Company - Quarter Anna - 1835

 

Cyprus, 1/4 Piastre , 1901 Obv:- VICTORIA QUEEN, Queen facing left wearing a coronet with a decoration of oak leaves and scrolls; date below.
Rev:- CYPRUS . QUARTER PIASTRE, 1/4 within a circle of beads and in a circle the inscription
Mintage 72000
Engraver - Wyon Leonard Charles at Royal Mint, London

KM 1.20

 

Sweden - 1/4 Skilling - 1819

Obv:- FOLKETS KARLEK MIN BELONGING, Monogram of Carl XIV
Rev:- Crossed arrows, 1-4 SKILLING

 

Sweden - 1/12 Skilling - 1812

Obv:- FOLKETS VAL MIN HÖGSTA LAG, Monogram of Carl XIII
Rev:- Three crowns, 1-12 SKILLING

 

Here's a couple of fractions and dual denomination

3/4 ruble - 5 zlot


1 1/2 ruble - 10 zlot

 

1762 gold Quarter Guinea, (Bent into an "S" shape for a "Love Token"

 

Korea 1/4 yang

 

1970 2 1/2 Cents from Rhodesia(formerly Zimbabwe)

 

1923
1/12th Anna

 

Sweden.
2/3 skilling 1851.

 

Initially I thought so too. But look at the forum structure - the US is not part of the world. Still a nice coin.

Christian

 

A half franken/franc coin from Switzerland (image borrowed from Wikipedia ...). Why "1/2 Fr" and not "50"? Because in earlier years those were silver pieces, and a 2 Fr coin had to be twice as heavy as the 1 Fr while the 1/2 Fr had half the weight.

Christian

 

Russian Empire.
1/4 kopek 1844.

 

Island of Jersey.
1/24 of a shilling 1909.

 

Norway.
1/2 skilling 1841.

 

Netherlands.
2-1/2 gulden 1979.

 

Netherlands India.
2-1/2 cents 1897.