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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James O&#039;Brien, post: 3758442, member: 70800&quot;]It is more likely they were brought to England by soldiers returning from the Williamite War in Ireland. </p><p><br /></p><p>They could well have circulated there because much of the copper coins circulating in England in the early 1700s was either fake, or an unofficial trade token. After 1691 they circulated in Ireland at a fraction of their face value.</p><p>Gunmoney Sixpence = 1 farthing</p><p>Gunmoney shilling = 1 halfpenny</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very unlikely they circulated at face value in England either because sixpences, shillings and halfcrowns were silver, not copper or brass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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