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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1735734, member: 40017&quot;]A very useful list, however to be pernickety, a few omissions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1/16th of a Penny - a Quarter Farthing</p><p>1/12th of a Penny - a Third of a Farthing</p><p>1 and 1/2 of a penny - known as a &quot;Three ha&#039;pence&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these were in use in the 19th century, although often in the colonies more than at home.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also it may help to know that the Angels, and all the Noble coins are much older having gone out of circulation before we changed to milled coinage in the 17th century. In fact there have been a number of other denominations in antiquity, including the Unite (with various multiples and fractions), the Broad, the Leopard, and an earlier version of the Florin which did not equate to 24 pence. An English hammered coin specialist can probably add even more!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Guinea coinage went out of service in about 1816 when the Sovereign was introduced as the main gold coinage. Many of the other coins have had short or intermittent histories - the Double Florin was only issued in 4 years from 1887 to 1890.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the time we decimalised in 1971 the coins still in use were:</p><p><br /></p><p>Halfpenny - also called Ha&#039;pence</p><p>Penny</p><p>Brass Threepence</p><p>Sixpence - colloquially a Tanner</p><p>Shilling (12 pence) - colloquially a Bob</p><p>2 Shilling (florin)</p><p>Half Crown (2 and 1/2 Shillings) - sometimes referred to as &quot;Half a dollar&quot;</p><p>Crown (5 shillings - strictly only commemorative issues by then) - traditionally a dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was at school then, so I remember the &quot;old money&quot; with affection. Computers would hate it, but it had practical advantages - you could handle dividing amounts by 2, 3 or 4 much more easily than with decimal coin systems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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