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halfpenny
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halfpenny, ha'penny
1. a small British coin worth half a new penny, withdrawn from circulation in 1985
2. an old British coin worth half an old penny


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In all the correspondence to Viewpoints about bombings in Cardiff, or the books I have read about wartime Cardiff, I have never heard this store mentioned but I vividly remember, after the air raid as a six or seven-year-old, scavenging through the debris and finding pennies, halfpennies, farthings and bits of shrapnel.
He took money out of his pockets and began to flick halfpennies into the gutter as he walked along.
Our wage books trace the increase from two halfpennies a week to two and three farthings
 
 
 
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