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British cartwheel pennies weighed exactly one ounce and British bronze halfpennies were an inch across - made sense for these things to be useful 100+ years ago
by jamesfinlayson 3y ago
British cartwheel pennies weighed exactly one ounce and British bronze halfpennies were an inch across - made sense for these things to be useful 100+ years ago.
- ben_w 3y agoA while ago I noticed that the full name of the UK currency was "pound sterling" and that "sterling silver" describes relatively high-purity silver. Because of this, I wondered if the coin was supposed to be of equal value to 1 lb of silver, and it turns out, yes: https://web.archive.org/web/20131203201915/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/473092/pound-sterling https://web.archive.org/web/20131203201915/http://www.britan...