Meaning
Pence, Penny, Pennyworth <1,,1220, denarion>
a Roman coin, a denarius, a little less than the value of the Greek drachme (see PIECE), now estimated as amounting to about 9 1/2d. in the time of our Lord, occurs in the singular, e.g., Mat 20:2, Mat 22:19, Mar 12:15, Rev 6:6; in the plural, e.g., Mat 18:28, Mar 14:5, Luk 7:41, Luk 10:35, Joh 12:5; "pennyworth" in Mar 6:37, Joh 6:7, lit., "(loaves of two hundred) pence." Considering the actual value, "shilling" would have been a more accurate translation, as proposed by the American translators, retaining "penny" for the as, and "farthing" for the quadrans.
