Pathetic Victorian Divorce Court Alimony: A trime



"From the date of my husband leaving me to the present time (1871) he has sent me no money save and except that some months since he enclosed in a letter to me the smallest silver Coin of the United States of America of the value of about two pence in English money..."

Larry Schwimmer helped me to discover that the coin in question was a U.S. trime, or three-cent coin.

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