In The Days When Farthings Were Part Of The Currency...

[sandyRoe]

... how were items worth less than that sold?

Would two, or more, for a farthing have been a sales strategy?

[Prudie]

Farthings were before my time but as a child I could get 4 chews for a penny (when the smallest coin was a halfpenny) so I'm sure such offers were available with farthings once.

[davebro3]

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[ToraToraTora]

same as now with 1p. You get N.

[davebro3]

There was a pub called - The Farthing Donkey. Often one of the letters went missing from the sign.

[nicebloke1]

If I understand your question correctly. Money was far more respected back then, and you got value for money. Today not so on both counts above. They did over time become valueless in the form of purchasing anything, due to steady increasing prices, much like the half penny did a few years back.

[Spungle]

Matthew 10 v 29.

[sandyRoe]

^. He sees us when we're sleeping, and the sparrows, too.

We're under constant observation.

[johnny.5]

I blame the wrens

[newmodarmy]

blackjacks were 8 for a penny. i remember 4 for a halfpenny. i remember farthings but don't remember ever trying to buy 2 blackjacks for a farthing.

I don't understand the point about  getting better value for money then- things were far cheaper but earnings were far lower. As a child I only got tuppence, fourpence or sixpence a week depending on how many jobs i did at home.in the garden and my dad earned something like £4 a week and my childhood house cost my parents £500!

[ToraToraTora]

The smallest unit of price was a halfpenny when I when I was a saucepan. In 1961 prices stopped having farthings in them.

[Old_Geezer]

You offered to pay a mite.

[newmodarmy]

^Yes,  you're right. I remember as a child seeing farthings  but mustn't have used them as they were not legal tender after 1960/ 1961 so shops probably didn't accept them. I don't see why the shops wouldn't have sold me 4 blackjacks for a ha'penny though and it was common for prices to involve halfpennies.  I can remmeber when you could buy ½d and 1d stamps so to send a letter you could need half a dozen stamps on the envelope