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What year did the two and a half pence go out of circulation?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There was never a denomination of "two and a half pence" but there was a coin that was one-thirteenth of a shilling.
MustafaTickl
Thurs 17/01/08
17:17 There never was a denomination of "two and a half pence" so kempie's answer is not correct. The sixpence was never used as 2.5. The exact money for a tuppeny hapenny stamp was two pennies and one half penny.
Afraid you're wrong there MT - the old 6d. coin was exactly equal to 2�p and was used and accepted as such right up to the time of the withdrawal of the "Tanner" (6d.)! Just as Kempie says (above).
That coin in the link in the first posting looks very much like a "Farthing" to me; what indicates that it's a thirteenth of a shilling? I firmly believe no such coin ever existed.
Thurs 17/01/08
17:17 There never was a denomination of "two and a half pence" so kempie's answer is not correct. The sixpence was never used as 2.5. The exact money for a tuppeny hapenny stamp was two pennies and one half penny.
Afraid you're wrong there MT - the old 6d. coin was exactly equal to 2�p and was used and accepted as such right up to the time of the withdrawal of the "Tanner" (6d.)! Just as Kempie says (above).
That coin in the link in the first posting looks very much like a "Farthing" to me; what indicates that it's a thirteenth of a shilling? I firmly believe no such coin ever existed.
A farthing was half of a halfpenny (1/4d), hence 1/48 of a shilling (12d, as Erdinger says).
1/13 of a shilling, it would appear, was peculiar to Jersey until the nineteenth century:
http://jerseycoins.com/pen13/pen13_bz.htm
1/13 of a shilling, it would appear, was peculiar to Jersey until the nineteenth century:
http://jerseycoins.com/pen13/pen13_bz.htm
I believe the coin in MustafaTickl's link is that of a fractional denomination which existed for use in Jersey for the 25 years between 1841 and 1865...
http://jerseycoins.com/pen13/pen13.htm
http://jerseycoins.com/pen13/pen13.htm
I started work in a bank in 1978 and I can assure you that the old sixpence was accepted as 2 1/2 new pence until it went out of circulation. The banks would not accept odd half pences as a balance so you could either pay in 2 old sixpences (making 5p) or a sixpence plus a half pence coin (making 3 new pence).
This is one of those questions that looks so simple to answer: but, in reality it is not. Is the questioner referring to English coins, or Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, or perhaps the Colonies? Is he meaning a coin that was specifically minted as a two and half pence coin, or one that later became equivalent to that amount? When he says out of circulation does he mean no longer minted, or demonetized? Where did he go?
When decimilation came in, a few of the old coins were kept in circulation, end even though they still had their original worth on them, they were also knowb by their new deecimal worth.
A Sixpenny piece, (Tanner), was two and a half pence,
A One Shilling piece, ( Bob) was five pence.
A Two Shilling piece, (Florin or Two BoB) was ten pence
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that was about it, and they were phased out in time.
A Sixpenny piece, (Tanner), was two and a half pence,
A One Shilling piece, ( Bob) was five pence.
A Two Shilling piece, (Florin or Two BoB) was ten pence
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that was about it, and they were phased out in time.