[Verginius Rufus]

Before the British currency was converted to a decimal system in the 1970s, "d." was the abbreviation for a penny, from the Latin denarius.

In the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20), the coin is called a denarion, the Greek transliteration of denarius. In the King James translation, it is translated as a penny. So you have the workers agreeing to work all day for a penny.

[hanamizu]

I’m lucky enough to have a “tribute penney” issued by Tiberius. Originally the English penny was a silver coin. 240 of them weighed a pound (troy). So £1 was actually a pound of sterling silver. But that was a very long time ago.