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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 17806, member: 669&quot;]I&#039;m going to take a WAG that by &quot;typical pennys&quot; you mean United States cents.&nbsp; Repeat after me:&nbsp; There is no such thing as a United States penny.&nbsp; The U.S. mints produce &quot;cents&quot;, the British Royal Mint produces &quot;pennys&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to relative sizes, U.S. cents have had a 19mm diameter since 1856, but from 1793 to 1856 they were 26-28mm across.</p><p><br /></p><p>English bronze pennies, on the other hand, were 30-31mm for many years, before decimalization.&nbsp; Silver pennies, only 1mm wide, have been minted both before and after the 1971 conversion from pence/shillings/pounds to new pence/pounds.&nbsp; (The &quot;new&quot; was dropped in 1982, once Brits had become accustomed to a 100 pence pound.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Your 1988 bronze KM#935 is the size adopted in 1971 and was one of 793,617 minted that year (including proofs).&nbsp; Tough as it is to grade from a picture, particularly dark bronze, yours probably is no better than VF, worth face value (about 1.8¢).&nbsp; They have nominal catalog values of 15¢ and 25¢ in XF and Unc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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