| They are each to be of the value of half a cent, and to contain five pennyweights and a half a pennyweight of copper. |
| The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction. |
| Over the years, the penny was gradually debased until by the 16th century it contained about a third the silver content of a proper troy 24 grain pennyweight. |
| Gold of the same coin, and of Arabia, at five shillings the pennyweight. |
| An ounce is valued at eighteen dollars, a pennyweight at ninety cents, and so on. |
| One troy pound weighs 373.25 g and is subdivided into troy ounces, pennyweight and grains. |
