Citations:three halfpenny

English citations of three halfpenny

• 1921, Shoe and Leather Reporter, page 25:

  Fine crossbreds - Three halfpence to twopence halfpenny. Coarse crossbreds - One penny to three halfpenny, all quarter to half wool supers. Half to three-quarters wool super, one penny to three halfpence per pound.

• 1903, Tramway and Railway World, page 366:

  Although the passengers paying three-halfpence and over only contribute 13 per cent. of the receipts, the graded charges are perfectly fair, and our obligations to the [...] On the average, three halfpenny stages form penny stage.

• 1817, Rogers Ruding, Annals Of The Corinage Of Britain And Its Dependencies From The Earliest Period Of Authentick History To The End Of The 50 Year Of The Reign ... Georg III, page 160:

  Half Shillings, at six Pence apiece, and 120 in the pound Troy, and Threepences , Three Halfpenny pieces, and Three Farthing pieces [...] 4 pounds of Three Halfpennies, and two pounds of Three Farthings. [...]

• 1876, Edward Hawkins, Robert Lloyd Kenyon, The Silver Coins of England: Arranged and Described; with Remarks on British Money, Previous to the Saxon Dynasties, page 300:

  The three-halfpennies and three-farthings are all dated and have similar types. One three-halfpenny piece has MM obv. cinquefoil, rev. acorn. 1574. MB. The halfpence have no legend, have a portcullis on 300.

• 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, page 221:

  [...] halfpenny in place of three-halfpenny [...] From January to July they got the three halfpennies for nothing, and when the new Act took them away they would not […]

• 1888, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, Barclay Vincent Head, English Coins and Tokens: With a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins, page 70:

  Despite the issuing, however, of these three-halfpenny and three-farthing pieces, the want of halfpennies and farthings was still so seriously felt by the entire population that housekeepers, chandlers, grocers, mercers […]