| angel | a former gold coin with the head of the archangel Michael on it, first minted in Edward IV's reign; (verb) to support financially > ANGELED, ANGELING. |
| baubee bawbee | a halfpenny. |
| bob | a pre-decimal shilling. |
| bodle boddle | a 17th century Scots copper coin. |
| broadpiece | an old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, such as a CAROLUS. |
| carolus | a former English gold coin, first struck in the reign of Charles I > CAROLUSES or CAROLI. |
| copper | a pre-decimal penny; (verb) to coat with copper. |
| couter | (old slang) a sovereign. |
| crown | in pre-decimal coinage, a coin worth five SHILLINGS. |
| dandiprat dandyprat | a silver three-halfpenny piece. |
| deaner | a shilling. [L. denarius]. |
| eightpence | a coin worth eight pence. |
| eightpenny | worth eight pennies. N.B. this is an adjective. |
| farden farding | a FARTHING. FARDING exists in OSPD, but only as the participle of FARD, to apply cosmetics, so FARDINGS is #. |
| farthing | a quarter of a pre-decimal penny. |
| fippence | fivepence, a coin worth five pence > FIPPENCES. |
| fivepence | a coin worth 5 pence > FIVEPENCES. |
| fivepenny | worth five pence. N.B. this is an adjective. |
| fiver | a five-pound note. |
| florence | an ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III, of six shillings sterling value. |
| florin | a pre-decimal coin worth two shillings. |
| fourpence | four pre-decimal pennies. |
| fourpenny | a coin worth four pence. N.B. this can be a noun so FOURPENNIES is OK, like, say TWOPENNIES, THREEPENNIES, SEVENPENNIES, NINEPENNIES and SIXPENNIES but unlike FIVEPENNIES*, EIGHTPENNIES* and TENPENNIES*. I have no idea why we have an inconsistent pattern here. |
| grand | a thousand pounds sterling. |
| greenie | a pound-note. Also GREENY. |
| greeny | a pound-note. Also GREENIE. (Adj.) somewhat green > GREENIER, GREENIEST. |
| groat | a 4-pence piece from 1300's to 1600's. |
| guinea | in pre-decimal money, twenty-one shillings (one pound and one shilling). |
| halflin halfling | half a Scottish silver penny. |
| halfpenny | a coin worth half a pre-decimal penny > HALFPENCE or HALFPENNIES. |
| jacobus | an English gold coin, struck in the reign of James I > JACOBUSES. |
| joey | an old threepenny bit. They were small and silver and used to be put in Christmas puddings, in the days when parents had a lot of children and didn't mind losing a few by choking to death. |
| mail maile | a halfpenny. |
| mancus | an Anglo-Saxon monetary unit of the value of thirty pence > MANCUSES. |
| mark | a former monetary unit and coin in England and Scotland worth two thirds of a pound sterling; also a unit of currency in Germany etc. |
| mawpus mopus | a small coin. |
| meg | a pre-decimal halfpenny. Penny whistles were once called megs, because they were sold for a halfpenny. |
| merk | an old Scotch silver coin. |
| monkey | five hundred pounds sterling. |
| moy | (Shakespeare) not really a coin, but a misunderstanding of French moi as the name of a coin. |
| nicker | a pound sterling. |
| ninepence | nine pennies > NINEPENCES. |
| ninepenny | a coin worth nine pence > NINEPENNIES. |
| noble | an obsolete gold coin worth approximately one pound sterling. |
| oncer | a one-pound note. |
| patrick | a 17C Irish halfpenny. |
| paul paolo | an obsolete silver coin. |
| pence | pl. of old pre-decimal penny, also has become a singular for a new penny, with pl. PENCES (ouch!). |
| peni penie | (Spenser) a penny. |
| penny | in pre-decimal coinage, 1/240 of a pound > PENNIES or PENCE. |
| pistole | any of numerous old gold coins of varying value, e.g. a Spanish coin of the 17th century worth about 17 contemporary English shillings, or a Scots 12-pound piece of William III worth one contemporary English pound. |
| plack | a small copper coin formerly current in Scotland. |
| pony | (slang) twenty-five pounds sterling. |
| quid | (slang) a pound sterling. |
| rial ryal | an old English gold coin worth about ten shillings. |
| sceat sceatt | a small silver or gold coin of Anglo-Saxon times > (in both cases) SCEATTAS. |
| sevenpence | a coin worth seven pence > SEVENPENCES. |
| sevenpenny | a coin worth seven pennies > SEVENPENNIES. |
| shilling | in pre-decimal coinage, one-twentieth of a pound sterling. |
| shiner | (coll.) a sovereign. |
| sixpence | a coin worth six pence > SIXPENCES. |
| sixpenny | a coin worth six pence > SIXPENNIES. |
| solidare | (Shakespeare) a small coin. |
| sov | a SOVEREIGN. |
| sovereign | in pre-decimal coinage, a coin worth one pound sterling. |
| sterling | an English penny of the Norman and subsequent dynasties. |
| tanner | in pre-decimal coinage, a sixpence. |
| tenner | a ten-pound note. |
| tenpence | a coin worth ten pence > TENPENCES. |
| tenpenny | worth or costing tenpence or ten (new) pence. This is an adjective only: there is no form TENPENNIES*. |
| teston | a name for various silver coins, originally bearing a king's or duke's head; a Henry VIII shilling; later a sixpence. |
| tester testern | a sixpence; testern can be used as a verb, to present or reward with a sixpence. |
| testril testrill | a sixpence. |
| threepence | a coin worth three pence > THREEPENCES. |
| threepenny | a coin worth three pennies > THREEPENNIES. |
| thrimsa thrymsa | an Anglo-Saxon gold coin. |
| thrip | in pre-decimal coinage, a threepennny bit. The plural THRIPS is also a singular in its own right, meaning a kind of insect, with plural THRIPSES. |
| thruppence | threepence > THRUPPENCES. |
| thruppenny thrupenny | threepence, as in THRUPPENNY bit > THRUPPENNIES; THRUPENNY is adjectival only, as in thrupenny bit. |
| tizzy | a sixpence. |
| traybit treybit | a threepenny bit. |
| tuppence | a coin worth two pence > TUPPENCES. |
| tuppenny | two pennies > TUPPENNIES. |
| twalpenny | an old shilling > TWALPENNIES. |
| twopence | a coin worth two pence > TWOPENCES. |
| twopenny | a coin worth two pennies > TWOPENNIES. |
| unicorn | an old Scottish gold coin bearing a unicorn, worth 18 shillings. |
| winn | a penny. |
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