Demonetised - When a coin or currency is no longer legal tender. A British example is when the Half Pence was demonetised in 1984 due to it's low value and an even more recent example is when many European currencies were demonetised and replaced ...
Demonetised
Currency which can no longer be used as legal tender in payment for goods and services or to retire debts. Once demonetised, coins and notes are worth only their intrinsic or collector value.
Denomination ...
Demonetised - A currency which is deemed to be no longer legal tender for debts both public and private. Under the Currency Reform Act of 1816 all coins issued before that date were demonetised, no longer legal tender.
The coin was demonetised and withdrawn in December 1984.
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Half Penny, sometimes called Ha'penny (pronounced HAY-p'nee), demonetised and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984. (1"2p)
One penny (1p)
Two pence (2p) ...
A remarkable coin that suggests that official coinage was officially demonetised and reused as flans for counterfeits!
The imitation is of the REPARATIO REIPVB type very crudely done on a small flan from an offical AE3.
1855: British coins were declared the sole legal tender with all the remaining gold and silver of the Order and the foreign coins demonetised.
funds he was bound to come out way ahead. What he didn't know was the notes in this series had been demonetised years ago and were worthless as money. The note he had paid $20 for could otherwise be obtained from dealers for less than $1! ...
Also, it is likely that pieces of this original type were withdrawn from circulation when the new type of 1763-4 was issued, and they may have been demonetised either then, ...
 See also: Issued, Coin, Struck, Revers, Reverse
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