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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dnas, post: 7829083, member: 93707&quot;]By the way, if these are British, the are not one cent and half cent: They are one penny and half penny.</p><p>The the British system was not decimal, but 12 pennies to the shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound. </p><p>The convention to call a one cent coin a penny is American, was more a habit, a remnant from after the War of Independence, after which the USA adopted the decimal system of dollars and cents, 100 cents to the dollar (cent =100) in 1887, but people continued to call them pennies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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