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PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 116 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G er. Pfanne, a pan), an English coin, equal in value to the one-twelfth of a shilling. It is one of the oldest of English coins, superseding the sceatta or sceat (see
NUMISMATICS
 ; and BRITAIN: Anglo Saxon, " Coins "). It was
introduced into England by Offa. king of 1blercia, who took as a model a coin first struck by Pippin, father of Charlemagne, about 735, which was known in Europe as nevus denarius. Offa's
penny
  was made of silver and weighed 221 grains, 240 pennies weighing one Saxon pound (or Tower pound, as it was afterwards called), hence the term pennyweight (dwt.). In 1527 the Tower pound of 5400 grains was abolished, and the pound of 576o grains adopted instead. The
penny
  remained, with some few exceptions, the only coin issued in England until the introduction of the gold florin by
Edward
  III. in 1343. It was not until the reign of
Edward
  I. that halfpence and farthings became a regular part of the coinage, it having been usual to subdivide the penny for trade purposes by cutting it into halves and quarters, a practice said to have originated in the reign of IEthelred II. In 12J7, in the reign of
Henry
  III., a gold penny,
1 Probably the actual reason was that the assembly, dominated by the
advocates
  of the radical constitution of 1776, was attempting to punish the trustees of the college, who were almost all "
anti
 -constitutionalists."
of the value of twenty silver pence, was struck. The
weight
  and value of the silver penny steadily declined from 1300 onwards, as will be seen from the following table:
Reign.
Weight
 . Value in silver
925 fine, at.
5s. 6d. per oz.
Grains. Penny.
William I., 1066 22i 3.09
Edward I., 1300 . 22 3.02
III., 1344 20; 2.78
,, III., 1346 20 2.75
Henry
  IV., 1412 15 2.06
Edward IV., 1464 . . . 12 1.65
Henry VIII., 1527 io2 1.44
Edward VI., 1552 8 1-lo
Elizabeth, 1601 1o6
The last coinage of silver pence for general circulation was in the reign of Charles II. (1661-1662), since which time they have only been coined for issue as royal alms on Maundy Thursdays. Copper halfpence were first issued in Charles II.'s reign,' but it was not until 1797, in the reign of George III., that copper pence were struck. This copper penny weighed 1 oz. avoirdupois. In the same year copper twopences were issued weighing 2 oz., but they were found too cumbersome and were discontinued. In 1860 bronze was substituted for the copper coinage, the alloy containing 95 parts of copper, 4 of tin, and r of zinc. The weight was also reduced, 1 lb of bronze being coined into 48 pennies, as against 24 pennies into which 1 lb of copper was coined.


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