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- noun Plural form of
pfennig .
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Examples
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After she was sent off to the Grafenberg asylum, Trudi was raised by her father who ran the pay-library, where, for a few pfennige, the people in Burgdorf could borrow romances, American westerns, nurse-and-doctor novels, mysteries, and war novels—books that the church library refused to have on its shelves.
Floating in My Mother’s Palm Ursula Hegi 1990
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After she was sent off to the Grafenberg asylum, Trudi was raised by her father who ran the pay-library, where, for a few pfennige, the people in Burgdorf could borrow romances, American westerns, nurse-and-doctor novels, mysteries, and war novels—books that the church library refused to have on its shelves.
Floating in My Mother’s Palm Ursula Hegi 1990
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I may mention, that the binding of an 18mo. volume in boards, covered in paper, cost one groschen, eight pfennige, or, as nearly as it can be calculated, twopence in English money.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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German deutsche mark (1 deutsche mark (DM) = 100 pfennige) legal tender alongside the Yugoslav dinar (1999)
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Kriegsbrod, which we all use in Germany and which is quite palatable — at the price of 55 pfennige a loaf.
The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship
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Silver: Five marks, $1.19; 2 marks, 48 cents; 1 mark, 24 cents; 50 pfennige, 12 cents; 20 pfennige, 5 cents.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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The Government allows 60 pfennige (just over 7d.) per head for the rest of the food.
The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship
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For Roerer reports that the price of the Confession charts was three pfennige, whereas the price of the Sacrament charts was two pfennige.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Justus Jonas declares: "The Catechism is but a small booklet, which can be purchased for six pfennige but six thousand worlds could not pay for it."
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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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 Central Europe.
German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890
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