Please explain British money to a yank...

Jayron 32 said

Not to hijack this thread, but I have been considering writing a thread as to how I believe this to be an UL.

As a professional coin dealer for over 30 years, specializing in World Coins, these cut-up pieces of 8 Real coins just don’t show up! Yet people pass along the story that they were cut into fractional bits. BS I say!