5-millet

Updated: May 4, 2025

So, probably, would the English penny, and properly enough as a 4-millet piece. We fear our poor people would feel it to be an attempt to mystify them, were the government to withdraw this familiar coin and substitute a 5-millet piece, as some have recommended, for the sake of establishing a binary division of the cent.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428: Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852