A Penny not just any coin
This little pledge of state
A speciality avoirdupois
Depending on its weight
Pennies then divisible
In half and half again
Multiplied two forty times
Declared a monarch’s reign
Two sides amassed ‘One Twenty’
Sixty Pennies made a crown
Although the head could be removed
In a royal ‘dressing down’
Threepences there were eighty off
Sixpences counted forty
Twenty shillings made four crowns
Ten Florins French but haughty
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