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costs more to make than it's worth, and refuses to die anyway
means A penny is the smallest unit of currency in many English-speaking countries, equal to one cent or, in older British money, one-twelfth of a shilling.
from From Old English 'penig' (or 'pening'), a coin name shared across the Germanic family — German has 'Pfennig,' Dutch 'penning.' The deeper root is murky and much-argued: some link it to a word for 'pawn' or 'pledge,' others to a flat, pan-like shape, but nobody can prove which. The plural splits cleverly in English: 'pennies' for the coins themselves, 'pence' for a sum of money — a distinction older than the decimal system that eventually swept it aside.
- making cost
- Each one costs over two cents to mint
- mostly zinc
- Only 2.5 percent copper since 1982
- lucky side
- Tradition says only heads-up pennies bring luck
- lincoln debut
- First U.S. coin to feature a president
- acid test
- A penny shines instantly in vinegar and salt
lincoln penny — us one-cent coin minted since 1909 with abraham lincoln's profile
penny black — first adhesive postage stamp issued in britain in 1840
penny dreadful — victorian-era cheap serialized fiction publications costing one penny, popular 1830s-1890s