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Posted 05/20/2012 08:19 am
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If you had to pay 1/2 penny for some goods and only had a penny then you cut it in half. Remember that they were Silver and worth their Silver weight.
They were also worth quite a lot in spending terms; you could buy an awful lot with a penny in those days and it's unlikely that the poor would have seen that many of them.
Mike.
If you had to pay 1/2 penny for some goods and only had a penny then you cut it in half. Remember that they were Silver and worth their Silver weight.
They were also worth quite a lot in spending terms; you could buy an awful lot with a penny in those days and it's unlikely that the poor would have seen that many of them.
Mike.
I have a couple of these half pennies and I've wondered about this for some time. How did they cut them in half? The cut is almost perfect. I would think that a lot of folks were poor and did not own tools.
