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Pfennig  n.  (pl. pfennigs, Ger. pfennige)  A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark. In 2001 it was superseded by the euro.






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"Pfennig" Quotes from Famous Books



... money, as I recall. This tariff the American or Englishman pays, but the practiced Berliner merely suggests to the doorkeeper the expediency of his taking a long running start and jumping off into space, and stalks defiantly in without forking over a single pfennig to ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... increasingly agitated. Two hours before he had himself shaved. When the man asked whether the gentleman wanted powder, Kohn shook his head no, but said: "yes." An hour before Kohn went into a police station and asked for ten five-pfennig stamps and a ten pfennig postal card. (tr.—thinking that ...
— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... bit in the darkening room, sipping his coffee and smoking his fifteen-pfennig cigar, till the girl came in to light the oil lamps. He felt vexed with himself for his lapse from good manners, yet hardly able to account for it. Most likely, he reflected, he had been annoyed because the priest had ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... wine, in addition to such bread as he required, with enough over for lodging, clothing, and minor expenses. In Bavaria he could earn daily eighteen pfennige, or one and a half groschen, whilst a pound of sausage cost one pfennig, and a pound of the best beef two pfennige, and similarly throughout the whole of the States of ...
— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax



Words linked to "Pfennig" :   German monetary unit, German mark, Deutsche Mark, mark, Deutschmark



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