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Halfling

The half of a Silverling or old silver Penny. Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe has the sentence: "Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling... said the Jew."


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