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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8151192, member: 110504&quot;][USER=115909]@Gam3rBlake[/USER], I wish I had good info ready to hand on what a penny could buy --bet other people here do-- but yeah, it was a fair hunk of change, even into the 13th and early 14th centuries.&nbsp; At least under the Normans and Angevins, some of the fractions were actually pre-made at the mint.&nbsp; The very first round halfpence don&#039;t show up until Henry I (1100-1135), and they&#039;re really scarce.&nbsp; It was sort of like Elizabeth I&#039;s experiment with milled coins; a little too far ahead of its time.</p><p>That&#039;s too great, [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] ...replete with the Visconti arms (snake eating a small boy --bet the origin of that is a story).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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