Quarter farthing have a purchasing power of between 3p and 4p (£0.03 to £0.04). 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
Minot (unit) Minot (unit) The minot () is an old unit of dry volume, used in France prior to metrication. The unit was equivalent to three French bushels ("boisseaux"), half a "mine", and one quarter of a "setier". The size of the "minot" is comparable to the US and Imperial bushels. The name "minot" derives from the larger unit, the "mine", with an -ot diminutive suffixed. The term "mine" in this case derives from the same Greek origin as the word hemisphere, and refers to half of the larger "setier". The volumetric "mine" should not be confused with the mass unit mina,