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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 1829424, member: 58941&quot;]<u>Relative Values</u></p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage of medieval England was based on the penny. The first penny had evolved from the Roman denarius (hence the symbol d as in 6d).</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Farthing one quarter of a penny</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Halfpenny half a penny</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Half Groat two pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Threepence three pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=26" rel="nofollow">Groat</a> four pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=28" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=28" rel="nofollow">Sixpence</a> six pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Shilling or Testoon twelve pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=58" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=58" rel="nofollow">Crown </a>five shillings</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=24" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=24" rel="nofollow">Noble</a> (and George Noble) six shillings and eight pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=19" rel="nofollow">Angel</a> six shillings and eight pence</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Ryal (Rose Noble) ten shillings</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Spur Ryal fifteen shillings</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=49" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=49" rel="nofollow">Sovereign</a> or Pound twenty shillings (240 pence)</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=47" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=47" rel="nofollow">Unite</a> twenty shillings (22 shillings from 1612)</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=45" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=45" rel="nofollow">Laurel</a> twenty shillings</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=48" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=48" rel="nofollow">Rose Ryal</a> thirty shillings (33 shillings from 1612)</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=52" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hammeredcoin.co.uk/page.php?page_id=52" rel="nofollow">Triple Unite</a> sixty shillings</b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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