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An obsolete English dialect symbol, meaning a Farthing, and probably an ab- breviation of Quadrans.

In a work entitled Recorde of the Greate Artes, 1575 (p. 29), occurs the passage: " a farthing the iiij part of a penny."


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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