A rare silver two-pence coin sold for 67,500 times its face value at auction. Copper coins inside a two-pence coin pusher machine in Weston-Super-Mare, England on July 31, 2014.

Britain went decimal in 1971, keeping the pound, scrapping the shilling, and making the pound worth 100 “new pence”. Current British coins are £2, £1 (aka “quid”), 50 pence, 20 pence, 10 ...