Editing Half farthing (section)

{{Short description|Former coin of the United Kingdom and other territories}}
{{Infobox coin
| Country             = United Kingdom
| Denomination        = One half [[Farthing (British coin)|farthing]]
| Value               = £0.0005208{{overline|3}}<br />0.125''[[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|d]]''
| Unit                = 
| Mass                = 2.3
| Diameter            = 18.0
| Thickness           = 
| Edge                = Plain
| Composition         = (1828–1856) copper<br/>(1868) bronze
| Years of Minting    = 1828, 1830, 1837, 1839 1842–1844, 1847, 1851–1854, 1856, 1868 ([[Proof coinage|proof]] only)
| Catalog Number      =
| Obverse             = File:1843 Great Britain Half Farthing Obverse.png
| Obverse Design      = Profile of the monarch ([[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] design shown)
| Obverse Designer    = [[William Wyon]]
| Obverse Design Date = 1839
| Reverse             = File:1843 Great Britain Half Farthing Reverse.png
| Reverse Design      = Various ([[St Edward's Crown|Crown]] and [[Tudor rose|rose]]-[[Thistle#Scottish thistle|thistle]]-[[shamrock]] design shown)
| Reverse Designer    = 
| Reverse Design Date = 1842
}}
The '''half farthing''' was a [[Coins of the pound sterling|British coin]] worth {{frac|1|1920}} of a [[Pound (currency)|pound]], {{frac|1|96}} of a [[Shilling (British coin)|shilling]], or {{frac|1|8}} of a [[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|penny]]. The coins were minted in copper for use in [[British Ceylon]] in various years between 1828 and 1856, and as a bronze [[Proof coinage|proof coin]] in 1868. In 1842, they were also declared legal tender in the United Kingdom. Half farthings were demonetised along with all other British copper coins on 31 December 1869.