farthings in English
noun
1
a former monetary unit and coin of the UK, withdrawn in 1961, equal to a quarter of an old penny.
During that period, he said, there was a national shortage of small-denomination half penny and farthing coins - so many local towns and even tradesmen took to minting their own tokens.
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1. But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies, halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere.