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"etymology_text": "From sterling silver, which the coin was originally minted from.",
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"ref": "1823, William Brown, David Jennings, Antiquities of the Jews carefully compiled from authentic sources: and Their Customs Illustrated",
"text": "The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a penny sterling.",
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"ref": "1996, James Hogg, Gillian Hughes, Tales of the Wars of Montrose, page 302",
"text": "Wat imagines he is asked for thirty pennies sterling (two and a half shillings), when he is really being asked for thirty pennies Scots (two and a half pennies sterling).",
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"ref": "1964, Commerce & Industry - Volume 23, page 481",
"text": "The Hong Kong Dollar is the local currency unit and has a fixed value of one shilling and three pennies sterling.",
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"ref": "2010, Martha C. Howell, Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, page 17",
"text": "A price quoted as “10 pennies sterling” meant only that a buyer was expected to render a coin that was considered “worth” 10 pennies sterling. In such a case, payment might indeed be rendered in an actual penny sterling, but the relationship between the price (expressed by the money of account) and the bullion value of the penny was uncertain.",
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"ref": "2011, Jonathan Sumption, Hundred Years War Vol 3: Divided Houses, page 876",
"text": "There was a variety of silver coins in circulation, of which the most significant was the silver groat, worth four pennies sterling.",
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"ref": "1676, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae notitia ; or, the present state of England",
"text": "Twenty four Grains made one Penny Sterling, 20 Penny weight one Ounce, and 12 Ounces, or 5660 Grains made a pound Sterling, consisting of 20 Shillings.",
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"ref": "1727, Michael Dalton, The Country Justice: Containing the Practice, Duty and Power of the Justices of the Peace, As well in as out of their Sessions, page 363",
"text": "Thirty-two Wheat COrns, taken in the midst of the Ear, weigheth one penny Sterling. Twenty-pence Sterling, maketh the Ounce Troy.",
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"ref": "1891, Sir John Thomas Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin",
"text": "This order to stand in force and touching the fremen when ther is warre; and when peace shall be, then the waterbalifs to have of freemen eight pence sterling of every loader, soe ofte as every vessel of salt shall come into the haven uppon a fremans adventure, for plankage.",
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"text": "The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a penny sterling.",
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"ref": "1996, James Hogg, Gillian Hughes, Tales of the Wars of Montrose, page 302",
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},
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"ref": "1964, Commerce & Industry - Volume 23, page 481",
"text": "The Hong Kong Dollar is the local currency unit and has a fixed value of one shilling and three pennies sterling.",
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},
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"ref": "2010, Martha C. Howell, Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, page 17",
"text": "A price quoted as “10 pennies sterling” meant only that a buyer was expected to render a coin that was considered “worth” 10 pennies sterling. In such a case, payment might indeed be rendered in an actual penny sterling, but the relationship between the price (expressed by the money of account) and the bullion value of the penny was uncertain.",
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"ref": "1727, Michael Dalton, The Country Justice: Containing the Practice, Duty and Power of the Justices of the Peace, As well in as out of their Sessions, page 363",
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"text": "This order to stand in force and touching the fremen when ther is warre; and when peace shall be, then the waterbalifs to have of freemen eight pence sterling of every loader, soe ofte as every vessel of salt shall come into the haven uppon a fremans adventure, for plankage.",
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