† half-groat Obs.
An English silver coin, of the value of two pence, issued from the time of Edward III till the Commonwealth.
| 1451 Sc. Acts Jas. II, c. 2 At the..half grote [haif coursse] for iiij d. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 5 §1 All maner of half grotes or pence of ij{supd}. of English coine. 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 192 The coyne..he newly devised..and the silver he called grotes and half grotes. 1841 E. Hawkins Silver Coins Eng. 98 The coins of Edward III were groats, half groats, pennies, halfpennies and farthings. |