Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Old Money


 






A Penny not just any coin

This little pledge of state

A speciality avoirdupois

Depending on its weight


Pennies then divisible

In half and half again

Multiplied two forty times

Declared a monarch’s reign


Two sides amassed ‘One Twenty’

Sixty Pennies made a crown

Although the head could be removed

In a royal ‘dressing down’


Threepences there were eighty off

Sixpences counted forty

Twenty shillings made four crowns

Ten Florins French but haughty

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