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  2. Sixpence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    The coin was made from silver from its introduction in 1551 until 1947, and thereafter in cupronickel. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system ( £sd ), under which the largest unit was a pound (£), divisible into 20 shillings (s), each worth 12 pence (d), the value of two pre-decimal sixpence coins.

  3. Category:Pennies - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... History of the English penny (5 P) ... File:British one penny coin 2023 obverse.jpg; File:British one penny coin 2023 reverse ...

  4. 10 of the Most Valuable Pennies - AOL

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    For You: 8 Rare Coins Worth Millions That Are Highly Coveted by Coin Collectors Some of the pennies lying around your house could far exceed their face value of one cent. Let’s take a deeper ...

  5. United States Mint coin sizes - Wikipedia

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    This chart shows all of the coin types, and their sizes, grouped by coins of similar size and by general composition. [1] Seven distinct types of coin composition have been used over the past 200 years: three base coin alloys, two silver alloys, gold, and in recent years, platinum and palladium.

  6. Standard Catalogue of British Coins - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, Volume I was split into Coins of England & the United Kingdom, Pre-Decimal Issues, and Coins of England & the United Kingdom, Decimal Issues. It remains the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Queen Elizabeth II, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign ...

  7. 1860s replacement of the British copper coinage - Wikipedia

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    The three coins continued to bear the same reverses until the halfpenny and farthing were given their own designs in 1937 under George VI; [51] [52] the penny continued to display Wyon's Britannia reverse, with slight modifications, until decimalisation in 1971, ceasing to be legal tender on 31 August of that year. [53]

  8. Penny (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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    The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).

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