Obs. [Corruption of Ger. pfenni(n)g.] English names for the German coin pfennig, now worth about a tenth of a penny.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 465. They gaue me so much of their tinne money called fennies (as poore as they were) as paid for halfe my supper that night at Baden.
1756. Nugent, Gr. Tour, II. 61. At Berlin, and in most of the king of Prussia’s dominions, the moneys are expressed by crowns or rixdollars, grosses, and fennins.
