> > > Rebecca (the Enchanter's sister) told us amazing tales of her recent adventures in London and handed out tuppence to everyone. (She gave me a FAKE coin by mistake, but I noticed that it said "new pence" on it instead of "two pence" and she exchanged for a real coin.)
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> > Not fake, you'll be glad to know, but old.
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> > Minted between 1971 (decimalisation) and 1981, I think.
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> > winter"You probably already knew that"mute
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> I have some English pennies in my collection that are about the size of a US half dollar. They are thin and made of copper. I think they have King George IV on the front. What would that be? Pre-1928 or so? I'd go look, but my collection is in Tennessee and I'm in Georgia right now.
> Howard

Well, George IV reigned from 1810 - 1820, so they would almost certainly have been minted then. He was Prince Regent from 1811 - 1820 while his father (George III) was suffering from porphyria. But coins from this period wouldn't have had his face on them.

Pennies were that size from the 15th Century until 1971.