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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 62080, member: 708&quot;]No that&#039;d be the florin you&#039;re thinking of.</p><p><br /></p><p>Up until 1849 the coinage was as follows;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sovereign (20 shillings, Or £1)</p><p>Half Sovereign (10 shillings, ½ of a pound)</p><p>Crown (5 shillings, ¼ of a pound)</p><p>Halfcrown (2 ½ shillings, 1/8 of a pound)</p><p>Shilling (12 pence, 1/20 of a pound)</p><p>Sixpence (1/40 of a pound)</p><p>Groat (fourpence, 1/60 of a pound)</p><p>Threepence (1/80 of a pound)</p><p>Penny (1/240 of a pound)</p><p>Halfpenny (1/480 of a pound)</p><p>Farthing (1/960 of a pound)</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1849 a new coin of two shilling (1/10 of a pound) was introduced as the first step towards decimalisation and the halfcrown mintage was reduced and eventually production ceased for several years (as the halfcrown was not decimal friendly), by the 1870s how the idea of decimalisation had been shelved and the halfcrown re-entered production. When decimalisation was finally back on the agenda and due to occur in 1971 the halfcrown had to be removed before decimalisation day arrived, and thus was demonetised in 1969.</p><p><br /></p><p>The florin survived decimalisation and circulated extensively till the size reductions in the early 1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And did someone say medieval coins could not beat a Morgan Dollar?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh no?? Here&#039;s one i had from 1422, Henry VI gold noble, which is the same size as a Morgan dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/899958.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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