English Currency System

English currency in the nineteenth century followed the same guidelines that currency today follows: for every value of currency, there is one or more forms to represent it. Thus a pound in the nineteenth century could be represented by a one-pound note, which was its paper representation, or by a sovereign, which represented the pound in a coin. Below are the basic units of currency value, followed by their representatives in the coin and paper forms.

Amount	Paper Representation	Coin Representation
1,000 pounds	1,000 pound note	---
500 pounds	500 pound note	---
200 pounds	200 pound note	---
100 pounds	100 pound note	---
50 pounds	50 pound note	---
20 pounds	20 pound note	---
10 pounds	10 pound note	---
5 pounds	5 pound note	---
21 shillings	---	guinea
1 pound (20 shillings)	1 pound note	sovereign
10 shillings	1/2 pound note	half-sovereign
5 shillings	---	crown
2 1/2 shillings	---	half-crown
2 shillings	---	florin
1 shilling (12 pence)	---	shilling
6 pence	---	sixpence
4 pence	---	groat
3 pence	---	threepence
2 pence	---	twopence
1 pence	---	penny
1/2 pence	---	halfpenny
1/4 pence	---	farthing
1/8 pence	---	half-farthing