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2. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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   The crown, half crown, florin, shilling, and sixpence were cupronickel coins (in historical times silver or silver alloy); the penny, halfpenny, and farthing were bronze; and the threepence was a twelve-sided nickel-brass coin (historically it was a small silver coin). Some of the pre-decimalisation coins with exact decimal equivalent values ...

3. List of British banknotes and coins - Wikipedia

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   A commemorative coin issued between 1972 and 1981 as a post-decimal continuation of the old crown. From 1990 it was replaced in the commemorative role by the £5 coin. Fifty pence: 50p Introduced in 1969, just prior to decimalisation, to replace the ten shilling note ("ten bob note"). It was initially sometimes called a "ten bob bit".

4. Penny (British pre-decimal coin) - Wikipedia

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   The British pre-decimal penny was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 240 of one pound or 1 ⁄ 12 of one shilling. Its symbol was d, from the Roman denarius. It was a continuation of the earlier English penny, and in Scotland it had the same monetary value as one pre-1707 Scottish shilling. The penny was originally minted in silver ...

5. Category : Pre-decimalisation coins of the United Kingdom

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   Coins of the pound sterling; D. Double florin; F. Farthing (British coin) Fourpence (British coin) H. ... Twopence (British pre-decimal coin) This page was last ...

6. Twopence (British pre-decimal coin) - Wikipedia

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   Short-lived twopence coins in silver were also minted in 1817, 1818 and 1820. Twopence coins were made redundant in 1860 with the advent of bronze coinage. [ 2 ] The twopence was the largest and heaviest copper coin to circulate across Britain, [ 3 ] and second largest and heaviest coin in British circulation after emergency money issued ...

7. £sd - Wikipedia

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   UK: When the new threepence coin replaced the fourpence coin in circulation in 1845, it took over its nickname. The coin was silver or silver alloy from 1845 to 1937 and a 12-sided bronze coin from 1937 to 1971. Fourpenny bit (value: four pence) ˈfɔːp(ə)ni: Joey: UK: Also known as "groat", from the mediaeval four-penny silver coin of the ...