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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3570921, member: 57463"]Technically, not "coins."  I am not happy with the standard definition. I believe that true knowledge is often more complicated than the Orwellian declarations we shout on cue. My sensibilities aside, the fact is that following the late Alan Herbert who argued the point long and well, a coin is issued by a governmental authority and is accepted in indirect barter as money, where money is anything you accept now with the intention to trade later for something else. Thus, tax tokens are indeed, "tokens." They stand for money with limited use, in this case certain retailers in certain US states for a short period of time when balancing their obligations for retail sales tax. That being as it may, personally, I agree with you. 12 pence to the shilling; 20 shillings to the pound. So, 1/4 farthing is a 1/16 penny or 1/3840 of a pound or, say, 1/8 of a US cent... But unlike a tax token, coined money according to the numismatic hobby in the USA. Ah, yes! The entire family of protot (plural of prutah), the small coppers of Hellenistic Jewish kingdoms. They were also called by their Greek name: lepton (plural leptoi?).  The word means "lightweight" or "small" and is the same name given to the subatomic particles including the nutrino.[/QUOTE]