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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
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Farthing was a quarter of a penny, so I suppose about a ninth of a new p?
Was a groat 2 p old and therefore something less than 1 p new?
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A farthing was indeed one quarter of an old penny. That makes it 0.1041666... of a new penny. Close enough to one ninth for the points.
A groat was not 2d.
Two points to Bookpossum.