to make the reader visualize the coin and become interested in learning more about the culturally significant artifact.
Explanation:
By describing you first the object, then that it was illegal to do what they had done to it, and then the way of protesting he wants the reader to be interested first in the penny, but as the text progresses he wants you to start paying more attention to the other important details that the penny brought with it.
Friar Lawrence is surprised when Romeo says he loves Juliet, because he was so recently in love with Rosaline, but he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet to potentially end the feud.
