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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2035006, member: 12789&quot;]I do not believe that weight or intrinsic value was too consequential for copper pieces - curiously at least with British pieces - they got larger in farthings and halfpennies from the 17th to the 18th centuries.&nbsp; 17th century English farthing and halfpenny tokens from ca. 1649-1672 were small by comparison to the not oft issued regal coinage.&nbsp; Halfpenny weights were increased with the 1799 and 1806 issued coins - no doubt made possible by Matthew Boulton&#039;s steam coin presses that permitted significantly greater striking pressures and made larger coins much easier to strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know with Scottish coinage from the late 17th and very early 18th - bodles didn&#039;t really correspond to post 1707 British farthings, they were more like a 1/3 of a halfpenny instead of a 1/2 of a halfpenny but they circulated as farthings until the 1760s-1780s or so.&nbsp; The Bawbee or Scottish sixpence circulated as a halfpenny - which in essence given the 12:1 ratio of Scots Sterling to British Sterling essentially it was the same value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight and dimensions were much more consequential with silver and gold of course.&nbsp; Copper and bronze coinage has long been viewed as just a subsidiary necessity and not a coin of the realm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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