What is the smallest value UK coin that you ever used?

I remember the farthing but I do not think that I used one. The farthing had a jenny wren on one side and I am not sure what was on the obverse.
Halfpennies I have used.

The half penny as a kid. Could get you 20 sweets for 10p

This is really a how old are you thread, just missed out on the farthing so its halfpenny ( 1/2d )for me.

strangely it was the old half penny i can remember but i have just googled when the farthing  ceased to be legal tender was 1960 when i was 10 years old.i can't remember spending a farthing.

I am one of the youngest people that can remember the half penny coin as a guess.  Also remember five pence pieces and ten pence pieces still had 1 shilling or 2 shillings written on them.  This was late eighties, possibly even early nineties.  I remember coins minted in the fifties were still legal tender back the .

A Farthing

960 in a pound....can you imagine counting that lot, and loosing it somewhere along the way, and having to start again.

Of course it was called a farthing because if that was all you had when you needed to spend a penny, you would have to carry on farthing.

As an 11 year old boy in 1960 I'd have gladly counted them AP.
I remember the 1p caramel. Green wrapper and made by McGowans iirc.
240 please missus.

1 pence. seems strange to think there was less than that

on another point, why do americans have 1 dollar notes, what a pain in the $%$% that is, why not have a coin

Those £5 special collectors coins etc that are from the actual mint are AFAIK legal tender? Though you'd no doubt be getting less than their value spending them.

When I was in USA in 2000 they had 1 dollar coins.  When I returned in 2003 they didn't.  Might look it up on wiki.

Rob they still do.

Two farthings (but not for a kid)

Blackjacks or fruit salad, were 4 for a penny.

I splashed out on 2.

^^^^Rich kid

1/2 p was smaller than a farthing ? in Size so 1/2 p

Black jacks/fruit salads were 1/2p  late 70s and think even going back 5/6 years ago my daughter was buying them for a penny a piece.

Just going through my coin collection.....

1/2 p was smaller than a farthing ? in Size so 1/2

A Farthing was considerably smaller than a Halfpenny!

It is in fact the size of a current Penny.

An old  Halfpenny is the same size as a current Two Pence.

Even smaller was a silver "Three Penny Bit" of which I have 71 (bragging again)!

call me a taxi    10 Jan 15 21:17 
Two farthings (but not for a kid)

Blackjacks or fruit salad, were 4 for a penny.

I splashed out on 2.


Being younger than you CMAT so I am probably wrong but  I thought you got 8 for a penny  in the mis 60's but then my memory could be playing tricks

I collected farthings when I was young. They were still legal tender but I don't think I ever spent them. You needed halfpennies for some things,like children's bus fares. I remember a conductor once did me out of a halfpenny because he charged me 1.5d and only gave me a 1d ticket. I noticed but at 7 or whatever I was I was too polite to call him a crook.

did you out of half a penny

Should have swung imo     

Some on here probably rode a penny farthing to work

that's the line of the year for me salmon, spat me coffee out

there is no lower value coin than the current penny .

it's beyond worthless .

the current penny is roughly worth around one tenth of the half penny of 1972,or whenever decimilisation started

Aunty Im referring to Size only a Farthing was bigger than the Decimal half penny is what I mean ...

But we don't have decimal Half Pennies!!

FFS my desk is covered in currency!

It looks a bit like one of those machines, where you roll coins in, for the hope that one will create a "coin-slide"!

what were those coins that were tiny ,were around in the mid 1980s ? - they were half pennies

No but we did ,and it was smaller than a farthing in size ,from what I can remember ,irrelevant tbh

Gosh, I don't remember decimal half pennies!

1/2 pennies & One Pound Notes

Fivers were like a Fiddy back then

Think they Disapeared in the 80s Aunty

Yeah, I've just been looking, and I do remember a coin being withdrawn, now we are talking about it.

It must have been minuscule and, looking back to the 80's, is hard to imagine how it fitted in to the economics of the time!

Interesting to see that we ditched the "paper" pound some time ago, but the American dollar bill, worth only 0.66 of one pond sterling,
is still used.

Also that one cent, or as called now "penny", is only 0.66 of our own "penny" but still going strong!

It must have been minuscule and, looking back to the 80's, is hard to imagine how it fitted in to the economics of the time!
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how does the penny now fit in ?  that small coin was more valuable in 1984 than the penny today .

Has the 10 Bob note had a mentioned, known as "half a sheet in London" wurf 4 tosheroons cocker.

How much was a bell-fruit token worth?
Seems weird now, but if you won the jackpot on a pubs fruit machine, it would pay you out in tokens which were only
redeemable for beer behind the bar!

I think those tokens were 20p each mmm and the jackpot prize used to be 3 quid. I'm going back to around 1982 ish here.

The penny and tupenny bit should be taken out of circulation.  I have been saying this for about fifteen years.  Both utterly pointless.

I think you are about right Slippy.
Was the jackpot paid out in tokens to get around the maximum jackpot law?>

Yes that sounds right, I think a pint was around 65p back then so the jackpot equivalent for today would be about £18 depending on where you drink.

what i can't fathom is , after new pence came about in the early 70s  - what came before the half penny -or how was the gap filled ?  because half penny would have been worth about 10 pence

If everything was rounded up to the nearest 10 pence today there would be an outcry

The old ha'penny

Hmm- been reading up but doesn't say it survived after the changeabout  - yet it would be quarter
of a  new pence ,or worth around 4 pence .

i suppose if everything was rounded to nearest 10 pence today  would we notice that much ?would it make a difference - would we be better off /worse off ?   although no one would like it .

As robdylan says - get rid of 2s and 1s ,then maybe think about 5s

charities might lose out  via collection boxes  i guess

i have  a quarter farthing from queen victorias time

minted for use in ceylon , but seemingly legal tender in uk at the time





the least value coin i have used in this country is an old 1/2 d

the smallest size a 1/2 new pence




i think we should have a 5p, 25p, and 50p coin now

donny - the lowest value for you would be the current penny 

it's worth less

lowest donomination is the half penny

indeed

Farthing.
I remember when the farthing and crown were in use, but rarely seen.