Fractional sub-units

[<k>]

South Africa, farthing.

 

[<k>]

South Africa, pre-decimal half penny.

 

[chrisild]

Since we still do not have 1/10 cent coins to pay our gas bills accurately I cannot think of any modern example from around here. But if we can go back a few years ...



And here for example is a 1/4 stüber piece. (60 stüber were one taler, I think.)

Christian

[Figleaf]

Plenty of those around. More in the former colonies.

Peter

[maxmissy]

Look at this french necessity token from Nantes bakers ( Nantes is a town in Britany )
1/4 décime = 2,5 centimes

[ciscoins]

Russian Empire, 1/8 of a kopek ("pol polushki")

[ciscoins]

Russian Empire, 1/4 of a kopek (in previous years known as "polushka")

[<k>]

French Indo-China, ½ cent, 1935.

[FosseWay]

The Straits Settlements (now Singapore and parts of Malaysia) had ¼ and ½ cent coins issued by all three issuing authorities (EIC, the British Indian government and the Straits government). Unfortunately my examples are in rather poor condition and don't scan well.

[malj1]

United Kingdom, quarter, third and half farthings.

[Bimat]

Portugal has issued ¼ Euro (gold) coins, those are not intended for circulation though.

Aditya

[chrisild]

Portugal has issued ¼ Euro (gold) coins, those are not intended for circulation though.

Right, and France did that too (until late 2008), but I would not really count those - as you mentioned, those do not circulate. In 1999, 2000 and 2001 (when the euro had been introduced but the coins had not been issued yet) France even had silver coins with a face value of 6.55957 francs (equivalent of €1) for example.

Christian

[Figleaf]

This must be the mother of all weird fractional coins. The least convoluted explanation I have found is that 5 of these coins should equal 1/16th gulden. In practice, it went for a duit. In fact, there were 4 or 8 duiten in a stuiver (depending on whether the duit is homeland or colonial) and 20 stuivers in a gulden. Figure it out.

Peter

[FosseWay]

I was looking through the German States for something in KM and came across two coins denominated as 10½ and 21, which struck me as extraordinarily perverse. Can't now remember which state, what the denomination name was or even whether it was the 17th, 18th or 19th century volume.

[translateltd]

I was looking through the German States for something in KM and came across two coins denominated as 10½ and 21, which struck me as extraordinarily perverse. Can't now remember which state, what the denomination name was or even whether it was the 17th, 18th or 19th century volume.

Unusual to see the numbers written out, but not a lot more weird than a guinea and half-guinea :-)