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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7953818, member: 110504"][USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER], if you did a search for "denarius," you might be able to find [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER]'s recentish thread about how that evolved into the middle ages.  But regarding pennies and denarii, [USER=75482]@dltsrq[/USER] nailed it.  From the 9th and 10th centuries, the variations both of "penny" and "denarius" (equally anachronistic, but moving in opposite directions), begin to sprout all over what can broadly be called western Europe, not only linguistically but in terms of mintage in real time.But for the Scandinavian penning no less than for the Catalan diner, the English penny and the French denier were the prototypes in the more immediate, medieval context.[/QUOTE]