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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 706434, member: 20205&quot;]English silver coins had always been of the &#039;sterling&#039; standard (except during temporary periods of debasement under spendthrift monarchs like Henry VIII (aka &#039;Old Coppernose&#039; for the fact that the nose on his coin portraits was the first part to expose the poor standard of silver).</p><p><br /></p><p>1816 was however, the first year that the &#039;silver&#039; coinage of Great Britain had the dimensions that it kept until the early 90s, when the 5p (equivilent to an old shilling) was reduced in size to the diminuitive 5p we have today....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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