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
Rood (unit) and varying from 6 to 8 yards" (or 18 to 24 ft, "Rood", II.7). Rood (unit) A rood () is a historic English and international inch-pound measure of area, as well as an archaic English measure of length. "Rood" is an archaic word for "pole", from Old English "rōd" "pole", specifically "cross", from Proto-Germanic "*rodo", cognate to Old Saxon "rōda", Old High German "ruoda" "rod"; the relation of "rood" to "rod", from Old English "rodd" "pole", is unclear; the latter was perhaps influenced by Old Norse "rudda" "club". Rood is an English unit of area, equal to one quarter of