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Garoyn Pillar of the Community United States 513 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 12:52 pm I know that the following countries minted or had minted large cents/pennies for circulation within the countries. What other countries had large cents/pennies? I'm not talking decimal pennies or small cents, but I'm interested (or figgering out if I'm interested) in large pennies and large cents. Copper, bronze, aluminum, platinum, ceramic, germanium, radium, orichalcum, dilithium, etc. Thanks! US Canada (and Canadian provinces) Britain Australia New Zealand South Africa Any reference books for world large cents/pennies (not individual country books)? Report this Post to the Staff

Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 1:25 pm Pretty much all UK territory issued large pennies based on the penny. I have examples from Jamaica and Hong Kong, but I know there are plenty others. There is also the Irish penny. And while technically not pennies, the baliwicks of Jersey and Guernsey issued 1/12 shilling and 8 Double coins that were pennies for all intents and purposes. Report this Post to the Staff
NumisRob Bedrock of the Community United Kingdom 17951 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 2:16 pm The Ghana 1-pesewa coin of the 1960s and 1970s was based on the UK penny (but was smaller) and Malta used large bronze 1c coins (the size of Canadian large cents) from 1972 until 1986. My Trade List: https://goccf.com/t/194596 My Wants List: https://goccf.com/t/191710 Report this Post to the Staff
X2an Pillar of the Community Sweden 1078 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 2:56 pm Do you mean only large bronze/copper coins with a face value of 1 (subunit) or are other coins as interesting? Immediately I can think of the large Swedish pre-krona decimal 5 Öre coin. Large, penny sized, all that stuff. The French had their 10 centime coin based on 1 Centime = 1 gram of pure copper, thus the 10 centime coin weighted 10 grams made from pure copper. Many countries followed this starnard and thus have had similarily sized 10 cent (or respective subunit) coins including Spain Italy Romania Bulgaria and Greece Belgium also had this kind of system in place but 1 Cent equaled 2 grams of copper and thus the 5 Cent coin was penny-sized _______________________________ The Brittish introduced their penny-based system to most colonies, as mentioned earlier. The Penny lived on as cents instead. But they also kept their penny denomination in some instances: Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 4:05 pm For what it's worth, the term "penny" is largely related to the German "pfennig", both referring to small silver coins made to replace the Roman silver which had mostly been worn out or hacked to pieces by the 8th century. So in a sense, the penny can trace its lineage all the way back to the Roman denarius, or the Greek drachma. Pennies as large copper coins did not exist prior to 1793 in the US, and 1797 for the UK. Report this Post to the Staff
Numisma Pillar of the Community United States 4963 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 9:10 pm Pennies as any sort of coin did not exist in the US, period. Post No. 1500 Edited by Numisma 12/02/2015 9:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Enlil Pillar of the Community Australia 560 Posts	Posted 12/02/2015 9:35 pm So large coins of 30-40 mm, Papal States 5 baiocchi was 40 mm and 40 grammes, other German and Italian states also. Also Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Jamaica, Hong Kong 1 cent etc. The question is vague and needs to be refined with a few parameters. Report this Post to the Staff
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