Quarter farthing Quarter farthing The British quarter farthing (d) coin was a unit of currency equaling one sixteenth of a penny ( of a pound sterling). It was produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853, with proof coins being produced in 1868. It is the smallest denomination of pound sterling coin ever minted. The coin is considered to be part of British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the contemporary half-farthing which was legal tender in Britain between 1842 and 1869. Before Decimal
Penny Boudreau Penny Boudreau Penny Boudreau is a Canadian woman who murdered her 12-year-old daughter Karissa on January 27, 2008, later claiming it was to save her relationship with her boyfriend Vernon Macumber. At the time of the crime, Boudreau lived in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. In July 2018, the Parole Board of Canada granted Boudreau four escorted leaves to be taken in the remainder of the year. Boudreau was born in Ontario and grew up in Clark's Harbour in Nova Scotia. Boudreau had a strained relationship with her daughter. Boudreau claims that her former partner, Vernon Macumber, gave her the ultimatum that