When laying ceramic tile on an uneven floor they are quite useful. Each penny measures 1/16th of an inch in thickness.
Other uses are for making financial transactions at various merchants since our tax rates are not always a flat rate and include decimals.
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Are we talking about Sterling (GB Pounds) or US Dollars? In the US , pennies is a casual name for 'cents'. In the UK it is the correct term for the smallest denomination of currency. Since both currencies use the 'century' scale. In the the UK 100 pennies = 1 pound ; 100 p = £1.00 In the US 100 cents(pennies) = 1 Dollar. ; 100 c = $1.00 Hence 524272 pennies, divided by 100 = 5242.72. It follows in the UK it is £5,242,72p and in the US it is $5,242.72c.
For US money-21500 pennies would equal $215. There are 100 pennies to a dollar.
35,000 pennies is equivalent to 350 US Dollars. ($1=100 pennies)
According to the US mint, 6015.2 million pennies were made in 2012.
In 2011, the U.S. Mint produced 4,938,540,000 pennies.