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Offa's reformed coinage on light, broad flans is likely to have begun c.760-5 in London, with an awareness of developments in Francia and East Anglia. ... The broad flan penny established by Offa remained the principal denomination, with only minor changes, until the fourteenth century. [Anna Gannon, "The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage," Oxford, 2003]The English coin was originally set at one-twelfth of a shilling and was of silver, later copper, then bronze. There are two plural forms: pennies of individual coins, pence collectively. In translations it rendered various foreign coins of small denomination, especially Latin denarius, whence comes its abbreviation d.
英国第一枚称作penny(便士)的硬币是公元8世纪中期麦西亚( Mercia)国王奥发(Ofa,?-796)效仿法兰克人发行的。法兰克人的硬币叫做novus denarius,所以在英国币制改为十进制的l971年以前,denarius之首字母d一直是作为penny(或pence)的缩写词,就如s代表shilling 一样。penny 一词很可能源自更早的一位麦西亚国王Penda(?一654)的姓氏或意为1 weigh的拉丁语pendo。但有一点看法是普遍一致的:penny的词源是日耳曼语,和当代德语的Pfennig(芬尼)有亲缘关系。penny有两种复数形式:一为pennles,指硬币的个数,另一为pence,指价值,如sixpencea
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来自古英语penig,便士,来自Proto-Germanic*panninggaz,便士,可能借自拉丁语panna,小盘子,词源同pan.即形如小盘子。