Halfpennies

They expected pennies and halfpennies and threepences and a few shiny sixpences but all the coins were silver. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

From the size of the pile of pennies, halfpennies, and shillings in front of her, my aunt was winning. ❋ Kate Emerson (2010)

The penny was further sub-divided into two halfpennies or four farthings ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

Eleven of the coins are pennies and five are cut halfpennies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It seemed to her to grow bigger and bigger as the darkness deepened, and its green eyes glared as large as halfpennies in her affrighted vision as the thunder came booming along the heights from the Willarden-road. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“So we are,” said Peter, confidentially, “but we always have three pennyworth of halfpennies for tea whenever Mother sells a story or a poem or anything.” ❋ Edith (2003)

For an instant a profound silence reigned; the halfpennies clinked faintly, jingling against each other. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her own accounts were scrupulously kept: just as in the old days, she wrote down every shilling she spent, and knitted her brows over the halfpennies; with the result that she soon began to accumulate ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Black Bull was the village's single pub, four doors up from the vicarage, and next door to Barlow's shop where Prissy and I had spent our halfpennies on liquorice bootlaces and gob stoppers The pub's loaded cart, I knew, would not want to turn aside down the steep lane that led from the high road to Rose ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1997)

A beggar or two shook tin cups, halfpennies jingling inside. ❋ Charlene Cross (1994)

It's pennies and halfpennies to what we can make once the building begins in London. ' ❋ Cole, Martina (1992)

Much more was available for a very small sum of money in the late 17th century, through the 18th century and into the early [19th century]. [Halfpenny] was a phrase used by many women who accosted men including [the Regency] Bucks of the 19th century in the street. The men knew the women actually required a penny for their services when they heard the expression [halfpenny] ❋ Stias (2005)

Leigh Halfpenny is the [actual] [Prince of Wales]. ❋ Fassbanger (2015)

[My son] is merely a [halfpenny] old. I've had that toy since I was [halfpenny age]. ❋ Hein Wortschöpfer (2021)