Blood for the Baron!

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat

If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha' penny, then God bless you

seriously, what is a ha' penny!?

a penny in the US is 1 itty bitty cent, how can you cleave that value in half and make a half penny? is that or was that really a coin that existed?


and I might as well ask how a pence and a quid convert to USD. GBP (pounds) are easy, xe.com helps us out at work to do those conversions, but how do the smaller units convert?



just curious here... I seriously have no idea why this question occurred to me 10 minutes ago.

yup 1/2 pences used to exist, after decimilsation too... I remember buying half penny sweets in my youth...

yeah, then you got 2 for a penny when they 1st got rid of them!

British coinage these days goes:

1p
2p
5p
10p
50p
£1
£2

then it's the £5 £10 and £20 notes, and then £50 if you're a tourist. (seriously, i never see £50 notes in the shop unless it's a tourist...)

if you want old money, try looking up British coinage on wikipedia. that'll confuse you with pennies, shillings and pounds and so on.

to quote a Sir Terry Pratchett gag:

'and British people resisted decimilisation for years, believing it to be too complicated'...

You missed out the 20p coin!

You missed 20p's off sundance! My favourite of all the small denomination coins!

Too slow, amigo!

GAH!

i coulda swore i put it in...

I'm actually a bit perturbed that SteveD has favourite coins... Is there any currency you dislike, Steve?

Seriously, if anyone here can't abide the £20 note I'll reluctantly find them a good home.