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Old pennies
Answer
In the United States, old pennies, specifically those minted before 1982, are made of 95% copper and weigh 3.11 grams each. There are approximately 145 old pennies in a pound, since a pound is 453.59 grams. Therefore, if you have a pound of old pennies, you would have around 145 of them.
22,000 modern pennies weight about 121.28 pounds , based on 181.4 pennies per pound. The old copper pennies weigh more.
Australian 1964 Pennies were minted in 1964, so as at January 2011, they are 47 years old.
In 2010, they are 94 years old.
240- there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound.
Yes there is a diff between old Canadian pennies and new ones
252 is the answer
15 year old pennies are essentially the same size as those minted today. You'd have to go back to 1857 to find pennies that were significantly larger.
Five old pennies were commonly referred to as a "shilling." In British currency, a shilling was worth 12 pence, so five pennies would be part of that larger denomination. Additionally, in some contexts, five pennies could simply be called "five pence" or "five old pence" in reference to their value.
If you are talking dollars then the answer is 400,000 if you are talking old English pounds then the answer would be 960,000 pennies