Penny Definition–noun | 1. | a bronze coin, the 100th part of the dollars of various nations, as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; one cent. | | 2. | Also called new penny. a bronze coin and monetary unit of the United Kingdom and various other nations, the 100th part of a pound. Abbreviation: p | | 3. | a former bronze coin and monetary unit of the United Kingdom and various other nations, the 12th part of a shilling: use phased out in 1971. Abbreviation: d. | | 4. | a sum of money: He spent every penny he ever earned. | | 5. | the length of a nail in terms of certain standard designations from twopenny to sixtypenny. | –adjective | 6. | Stock Exchange. of, pertaining to, or being penny stock: frenzied speculation in the penny market. | —Idioms | 7. | a bad penny, someone or something undesirable. | | 8. | a pretty penny, Informal. a considerable sum of money: Their car must have cost them a pretty penny. | | 9. | Chiefly British Slang. spend a penny, to urinate: from the former cost of using a public lavatory. | | 10. | turn an honest penny, to earn one's living honestly; make money by fair means: He's never turned an honest penny in his life.
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English coinage proper began with the silver penny of Offa, king of Mercia (757-796). It was first struck at around the weight of the sceat, from about 790, and its weight increased to about 22 12 ...
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a novel of crime or violence especially popular in late Victorian England and originally costing one shilling. Shilling shockers were usually characterized by sensational incidents and lurid writing. ...
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The Norman Conquest of 1066 made little change in the mint system or in the coinage (though the facing portrait acquired great popularity); the pre-Conquest moneyers stayed in office and struck coins ...
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sterling
the standard of purity for silver. The term sterling silver denotes any silver alloy in which pure silver makes up at least 92.5 percent of the content.Hergesheimer, Joseph
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