[Olog-hai]

Florins, half-crowns, sixpence, threepence, ha’pennies and farthings too?

The diameter of the old British penny is the same as that of the US 50¢ coin, BTW. Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

And don’t for get the Halfpenny, Farthing, Guinea, Crown, tuppenance, thrupance, bob, tanner or half-shilling.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead.

Those are the pennies they used to place on the governor of Big Ben to keep it in step with the sun.

[jonascord]

"Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead."

You have to pay the Ferryman, and I've always wondered about the souls wandering about on the wrong side of the River because they had cheap relatives...