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halfpenny

Originally round silver coins, first minted in the reign of Alfred the Great, and from 1672 the first English copper coin. From the 10th to the 13th centuries, the halfpenny was literally a full penny cut in half but it gradually became a coin in its own right. It was withdrawn with the advent of decimalization in 1969, although it remained legal tender until the 1980s.



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"I've got a halfpenny o' my own," said Bob, proudly, coming out of the water and tossing his halfpenny in the air.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
The whole paper was not so large as a page of one of our present halfpenny papers.
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I put that enlightened object before him, and now he can turn his honest halfpenny by the three penn'orth a week.
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