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The obverse of a halfpenny, showing Edward VII. The British halfpenny coin was worth 1/480th of a pound sterling.At first in its 700-year history it was made from silver, but as the value of silver increased the coin was made from base metals.
The Half Cent, 1793–1857 The Story of American's Greatest Little Coin by William R. Eckberg, 2019; The Half Cent Handbook – Draped Bust Varieties 1800–1808 by Ed Fuhrman, 2020. The Half Cent Handbook – Classic Head & Braided Hair Varieties by Ed Fuhrman, 2021. The Half Cent Handbook – Liberty Cap Varieties 1793–1797 by Ed Fuhrman, 2022.
The British pre-decimal halfpenny (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ p ən i /), once abbreviated ob. (from the Latin 'obulus'), [1] is a discontinued denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 / 480 of one pound, 1 / 24 of one shilling, or 1 / 2 of one penny. Originally the halfpenny was minted in copper, but after 1860 it was minted ...
The reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, was a representation of St Edward's Crown, with the numeral " 1 / 2 " below the crown, and either NEW PENNY (1971–1981) or HALF PENNY (1982–1984) above the crown. Only one design for the obverse was used on the halfpenny coin.
Ha'penny, by Jo Walton; Ha'penny Bridge, over the Liffey in Dublin; Halfpenny Bridge, over the Thames in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; Halfpenny Gate, village in County Down, Northern Ireland; Halfpenny Rose Red, a postage stamp from the reign of Queen Victoria; Halfpenny, Cumbria, hamlet in Southern Lakeland, Cumbria, England
The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
In 1850, the Bank of Upper Canada received the right to issue a coinage due to a severe coin shortage. The coinage consisted of 1/2 Penny and 1 Penny Bank Tokens. The obverse of the coins carried a representation of St.George slaying the dragon based on Benedetto Pistrucci's gold sovereign coinage design.
The Australian pre-decimal halfpenny coin, commonly known as a ha’penny (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ p ə n i /), [1] was the smallest denomination of the Australian Pound in circulation. It was a unit of currency that equalled half of a penny, 1 / 24 of a shilling, or 1 / 480 of a pound. [ 2 ]