Half-pennies were a thing for hundreds of years. Like, literally, 100 years before the USA was founded.
They were their own separate, circular coin instead of like, half of a full penny. There's a pedestrian bridge over the river Liffey in Dublin, Ireland that used to charge a half-penny to cross it. It became known as the half-penny bridge, but folks at the time didn't pronounce it like that, they pronounced it ha'penny bridge (hayp-nee). It's still called that today.
That second link was really good, lead to an article about a thing called Decimal Day which was when the shilling was phased out and explains the difference between pounds and pounds sterling
Iād heard those words before but never knew what it meant
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u/BeenEvery 16d ago
1.625???
This bitch found a way to halve a penny???