Gallihalpens
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Gallyhalfpence
A kind of coin which, with suskins and dotkins, was prohibited by the statute 3 Hen. V. c.
1. 4 Bl. Com. 99. 3 Reeves' Hist. 261.
Said to have been a Genoa coin, brought into England by the Genoese merchants, who trading in gallies were called galley-men, and the small silver coin they used, galley halfpence.
Cowell.
Otherwise interpreted to mean Gaul's half-pence.
Blount.
According to Mr. Crabb, it was money brought by the Venetians in their gallies.
Crabb's Hist. 356.