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
Quarter sawing total; if a log is cut to produce only quarter sawn boards there will be considerable waste. The process indicated in the US as "quarter sawing" yields a few boards that are quartersawn, but mostly rift sawn boards. Quarter sawing Quarter sawing also quarter-cut is a type of cut in the rip-sawing of logs into lumber. The resulting lumber is called "quartersawn" (quarter-sawn), "quartered", and "radially-sawn". There is widespread confusion between the terms quartersawn and "riftsawn" with both words defined with opposite meanings and as synonyms. Quarter-sawn boards have greater stability of form and size with less cupping, shrinkage across