The Collaborative International Dictionary
halfpenny \half"pen*ny\, half-penny \half"-pen*ny\(h[=a]"p[e^]n*n[y^] or h[aum]f"-; 277), n.;pl. Half-pence (-pens) or Half-pennies(-p[e^]n*n[i^]z). An English coin of the value of half a penny, no longer minted; also, the value of half a penny.
Syn: ha'penny.
Usage examples of "half-penny".
But what stand I upon these things, who have rather to complain of the injury offered by some of our neighbours of the laity, which daily endeavour to bring us also within the compass of their fifteens or taxes for their own ease, whereas the tax of the whole realm, which is commonly greater in the champagne than woodland soil, amounteth only to 37,930 pounds ninepence half-penny, is a burden easy enough to be borne upon so many shoulders, without the help of the clergy, whose tenths and subsidies make up commonly a double, if not treble sum unto their aforesaid payments?
Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies -- 421 pennies and 270 half-pennies.