Definition

• An English dialect term for a half Penny of the eighteenth century. It is common to Cumberlandshire.

  Ralph, Miscellaneous Poems, 1747 (96), has the following lines: " A fortune-teller leately com about, And my twea guid King Gweorges I powt out."

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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