Great Britain - 1800

1 Penny (D & H 12 - Middlesex, Christ's Hospital)
Obverse - The intertwined letters, HC. Below, 1800	Reverse - Between two devices, PENNY
Size, 29 mm.

D & H 12 - Christ's Church
O:	The down strokes of cypher in double lines, the top of the 1 flat, no period after date.
R:	The same as last.

Despite the denomination this is struck on flans the size and weight of a halfpenny. Earlier in Dalton & Hamer when describing the associated six pence is the following information:

These, also those for penny and halfpenny, were struck for the sole use of the boys of Christ's Hospital, and were known as "Housey-money." It was illegal for boys to make purchases outside the gates, or to retain possession of current coin; it was changed by one of the beadles.

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