Need help with coins

digger460 · Jan 17, 2016

Hi all,

Came across these today, and I don't know what they are. Can anyone ID these for me? Thanks, appreciate it!

l.cutler · Jan 17, 2016

Three British Pennies and one British halfpenny.

coinsareawesome · Jan 18, 2016

Nothing especially rare. I hope you didn't pay too much.

digger460 · Jan 18, 2016

coinsareawesome said:
Nothing especially rare. I hope you didn't pay too much.

No I didn't pay anything for them. Someone else's goody box that I found them in. Just curious what they were. Thanks much! :thumbsup:

Carolina Tom · Jan 18, 2016

I found a match to your half penny last year!

Nice finds. Cool to see them copper colored instead of green.

dejapooh · Jan 20, 2016

Three pennies and a half penny from Great Britain. Now, there were 4 farthings in a penny, so the half penny was 2 farthings. There are 4 silver pennies in a Groat, there were 12 pennies in a Shilling. 2 shillings in a florin, 5 shillings in a crown, 20 shillings in a pound, and 21 shillings in a guinea. That's why in old movies you will see prices in England as 3/10/5 (that would be 3 pounds, 10 shillings, 5 pennies). A sovereign was a gold pound coin (so a 5 pound gold coin was 5 sovereigns).

They went decimal in 1971. Now it is 100 pennies in a pound.

Fun, eh?

digger460 · Jan 20, 2016

dejapooh said:
Three pennies and a half penny from Great Britain. Now, there were 4 farthings in a penny, so the half penny was 2 farthings. There are 4 silver pennies in a Groat, there were 12 pennies in a Shilling. 2 shillings in a florin, 5 shillings in a crown, 20 shillings in a pound, and 21 shillings in a guinea. That's why in old movies you will see prices in England as 3/10/5 (that would be 3 pounds, 10 shillings, 5 pennies). A sovereign was a gold pound coin (so a 5 pound gold coin was 5 sovereigns).

They went decimal in 1971. Now it is 100 pennies in a pound.

Fun, eh?

Wow, ask and ye shall receive! Thanks for the info. I'll have to study that a little bit tho... :laughing7: