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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2073119, member: 71234&quot;]A good day to day account is Pepys Diary, he mentions giving pennies to link boys and sixpences to boatmen and there are many mentions of money, down to a few pence paid for this and that.</p><p>He takes a keen interest in the new machines and designs at the Royal Mint and in the withdrawal of the Commonwealth coinage and its re-coining. There are attempts to calculate the amount of coinage in existence and circulation and the premium for gold coins often crops up, he pays up to eighteen pence in the pound for gold to make his personal hoard more portable. I have read the diaries a couple of times and don&#039;t recall any specific answer to your question.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a practical point of view I can&#039;t see much use for&nbsp; such tiny silver pieces,they were valuable enough to matter but way too easy to lose.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll have a pint of whatever the grader was drinking when he rated a coin that&#039;s VF at best, and somewhat damaged,&nbsp; as AU.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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