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    :: Sunday, September 11, 2005 ::

    Selecting Nails
    Pennies and Inches
    In Great Britain in the 1400s, you could buy 100 medium-size nails for 8 pennies. It didn't take long for inflation to destroy that designation, but we use the term penny to this day to size nails. The abbreviation 'd' for penny is derived from denarius, a small, silver Roman coin used in Britain that, from early times, equated with a penny.

    Inch equivalent of nails sizes:
    3d=1 1/4'
    4d=1 1/2'
    6d=2'
    7d=2 1/4'
    8d=2 1/2'
    10d=3'
    12d=3 1/4'
    16d=3 1/2'
    20d=4'
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