- Joined
- Dec 13, 2022
It’s short for half pennies. You don’t see that kind of coinage around anymore.
I'm so old I can remember taking a half-penny into the local sweet shop and being able to buy candy with it. Not very much, but you could buy two Black Sambo bubble gums for a penny and a ha'penny would buy you one.
Tuppence would get you a packet of sweet cigarettes or a sack of sweet tobacco if you were a roll your own type of kid.