Definition of "pfennige" []

• Plural form of pfennig. (noun)

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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."
• "Silver: Five marks, $1.19; 2 marks, 48 cents; 1 mark, 24 cents; 50 pfennige, 12 cents; 20 pfennige, 5 cents."
• "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."