Coins with fractional and mixed number denominations

a Third recent addition...
Braunschweig Blankenburg
AV Quarter Dukat 1720 HCH Braunschweig Mint
Ludwig Rudolf Furst zu Braunschweig Blankenburg

 

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A Fourth....
Axum
AV 1/8 Aureus ND
Aphilas 290-300AD

 

Picked this up recently while looking for Austrian interwar coinage.
It didn't fit that theme, but I bought it anyway.
Austria, 1760 (ND), 1/2 Kreutzer, Maria Theresa, Bronze

 

Another Austrian fractional:
Austria, 1/4 Florin, 1858A (Vienna), Franz Joseph I, 0.520 Ag

 

Salzburg/ Erzbistum
AV Quarter Dukat 1782
Salzburg Mint
Hieronymous von Colloredo 1772 -1803

 

A new piece for me:

 

New purchase:
Denmark, 1841, 4 Rigsbankskilling = 1¼ Schilling Courant, Christian VIII
It looks copper-colored, but it's actually 0.250 billon. $2.

 

England
Edward IV of York (First Reign) 1466-69
Half Ryal ND
Tower Mint

 

Anything yet denominated in sevenths (or elevenths, or any other higher prime)?

 

Closest I can think of is a Jersey 1/13th shilling.
I can't find a photo offhand, but I think I own one. Here's a 1/26 shilling at least.

For coins with oddly numbered denominations, such as this 1802 Austria 7 kreutzer, the reference unit is the 1 kreutzer, which would not be referred to as 1/7th of this coin. Similar to how we wouldn't call a shilling 1/21st of a guinea. (I know 21 is not a prime number, but you get the idea.)

 

You know, that's good enough for me.

 

Oh, and since I love this kind of stuff, here's a bit from my coin blog as to why Jersey pennies were 13 to the shilling:
"As Jersey is geographically much closer to France than to England, French money tended to circulate. The French coinage was denominated in livres and sous, with 20 sous to the livre. Shortly after the French Revolution, there were 26 French livres to one English pound. One shilling is 1/20th of a pound, and thus one shilling was worth 26 sous. The French Revolution decimalized the currency, with one franc equaling 100 centimes. As livres and sous were obsolete, they no longer circulated readily in Jersey. I would imagine the chaos of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars also disrupted the flow of money to the island. To make up for this, Jersey began making its own coinage in the 1830s. One Jersey penny equalled two French sous, which meant it took 13 Jersey pence to equal one English shilling, as compared to 12 pence to the shilling in the UK proper."

 

FWIW, a 1/3 Guinea is 7 Shillings.

 

Ionia
Kyzikos
EL 1/48 Stater (600BC)
Head of Tuna

 

Thank you. I had wondered why they were 13 to a shilling.

 

And 1/4 guinea is 21/4 shillings, or 5 shillings 3 pence. This month's PCGS calendar coin is a Brasher counterstamp on a 1/4 guinea, valuing it at $1 1/6, which works out to 54 pence or 4 1/2 shillings per dollar.

 

This 1/3 (1s 6d) and 1/9 (6 pence) dollar were common colonial paper money amounts.

 

Here's my best one.

 

Jersey 1/26th of a shilling 1866. All the more recent ones I have seem to be 1/12, etc.

 

Jersey 1/52 Shilling