Pretty Penny was created in 1995.

To say something costs a 'pretty penny' is to mean the item is expensive

This is just an imaginative way of saying that something is expensive - it's not just worth a penny, the penny has to be pretty on top of it!

The cast of Pretty Penny - 2001 includes: Shane Luther as Chris Kestie Morassi as Penny

The phrase means that something is very expensive. The origin comes from a gold penny that was minted in the 1200's that was worth 20 silver pennies. Because it was gold, it was a pretty penny, and if it cost a pretty penny, it was expensive indeed.