Meaning & use
Penni
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A former monetary subunit of Finland, equal to one hundredth of a markka, used before Finland adopted the euro.
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Old Finnish coins from the 1950s were denominated in penni.
A loaf of bread once cost a handful of penni.
A note on using this word
Related to the Swedish 'penni' and German 'pfennig'; historical currency term now mainly of interest to numismatists and historians.
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