ha'penny

She took all my pennies and ha'pennies and thruppeny bits.

How many thousands of Brummy kids back in the 40s and 50s knew this little ditty, and how important were the pennies and ha'pennies back then.

HOLLYOAKS Sinead is on cloud nine - she has her boyfriend all to herself; so what if they don't have two ha'pennies to rub together.

They're just old-fashioned words - we may as well be cheering on the Somerset Bodkins, the Kent Tuppence Ha'pennies, the Yorkshire Cads and the Warwickshire Gaymeaninghappys.

It would take us ever such a long time to spend our ha'pennies.

Today, in many a miner's cottage, you may find in an old drawer what looks like an old handkerchief containing a wizened bread roll, a few ship ha'pennies and a screw of salt.