Цитата: DavekaneI have a couple of 1/10th of a penny coins what would that be in pre decimal british coinage?
Thanks for any help.
Dave
1/10th of a penny??? That's most peculiar, I have heard of farthings, quarter-,third-, and half-farthings but never 1/10th of a penny. Can you post a picture, please.
I wondered if it was a 'pound' the same as in the U.K. and I see it is, as in the country list there page is
British West Africa - Pound (1907-1968)
12 pence = 1 shilling • 20 shillings = 1 pound
Though probably an exchange rate for 'their' pound to 'ours'. Other countries also use a pound - either then or now, such as Australia, Bermuda, Biafra, and so on.
So for the U.K. the coins and fractions were ...
I know you didn't ask for all of them, but I have not seen a complete list of them on here before, so may as well list them now. So in answer to your question I guess the nearest equivalent is the half farthing or third farthing.
And Jersey issued fractional coins such as 1/12th of a shilling, rather than call it a penny, for example. Others they issued were 1/52 Shilling, 1/26, 1/24, 1/13, 1/4 so 1/10 Penny would be 1/120 Shilling.
Yeah I have one. Another interesting fact about the 1/10th of a Penny is that (I remember reading) is that it was the first, if not one of the first coins to be made out of Aluminium.
How unusual. I had never encountered a tenth of a penny in British-related coinage before. Which just goes to prove the old adage, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
As a point of interest seeing as how my 1/10 of a penny has come as a supprise to people It is also a Edward VIII coin 1936 as colonial coinage that did not have a portrait of the monarch were issued because it is lettering only and the mints did not have to wait for approval of the monarch for the portrait. Any way thanks again for the help and i am quite pleased that a coin in my collection was unusual enough to not be recognised straight away.
