Show old coins coin really broken they had an ingenious plan for or meeting a shortage of aman change la in the old days before copper colne coins existed until the reign of rdward I 1 the silver ller penny was wan the smallest cola coin minted la in ten Cn gland to the graat inconvenience of the small purchaser pr ot of the period but the difficulty was to some extent got over by the issue ot of pennies indented with a deep cross the coin could then be broken broan into halfpennies half pennies and farthings far things our first real copper coinage only dates from 1672 and until the time of rdward edward VI farthings far things of silver were coined growing smaller and smaller as the value of silver increased london chronicle |