Gallihalpens

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.