Numismatic Question for you Limeys

OK, the "half-pence", (pronounced hape-nee) was not the smallest coin, if I remember correctly, after having been here in the USA for 45 years.

I think the 'farthing' was the smallest, or maybe a silver thrupenny bit. (They used to put these in the christmas pudding as a kind of good luck charm)

Hope this helps you.

When I see "hate you" I'm thinking Cockney rhyming slang, except that I can't think what it would rhyme with.

half=C2=B7pen=C2=B7ny (hp-n, hpn) n. pl. half=C2=B7pence (hpns) or half=C2=B7pen=C2=B7nies

1. a. A British coin worth one half of a new penny. b. A British coin worth one half of an old penny, no longer in circulatio= n.
2. The sum of one half of a penny.

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Farthing was a quarter penny. At 240 pence to the pound, you can imagine how valuable it was.

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

hape-nee

I should add "hate me"

So half penny --> Hap-nee --> hate me is what we're figuring?

"Sounds good to me."

pyotr

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

wouldn't that be more 'haa' pen nee'? (It has been a long time since I was in England.)

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

exactly.

I used to love those old arithmetic questions like:

If a quarter cwt of coal costs one pound 3 shillings and 4 pence three farthings, what would be the cost of 5 tons 13 cwt and 3 quarters? regards, Mike in BC

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In the movie "Don't raise the Bridge, lower the river" one of the schemers gets a check (or rather cheque) for half up front. one order of 'Umpteen thousand pounds seven shilling nine pence and a farthing." Repeated several times in the scene

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!