three-halfpenny

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three-halfpenny (plural three-halfpennies or three-halfpence)

  1. singular of three-halfpennies
    • 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:
      [] 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 []
  2. singular of three-halfpence