Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Galley-halfpenny
subs. (old).A base coin, tempus Henry IV. [So called because it was commonly imported in the Genoese galleys. See Leake, English Money, p. 129; Ruding, Annals of Coinage, i., 250; and Stow, Survey (ed. 1842) p. 50.]