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United States
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Found this on the US Mint's website: "The United States Mint produces circulating coins in six denominations: one cent (penny), five cents (nickel), ten cents (dime), twenty-five cents (quarter dollar), fifty cents (half-dollar), and one dollar."  I've never heard the term 'golden dollar' before this either. EDIT: Ewps, wrong sub-forum. Didn't mean to go into error and varieties. Edited by trent
03/24/2014 09:47 am
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Lol Only the other day was I looking for details of some UK pennies, only to have loads of cents in form of web/image results. I finally found what I was looking for, but the amount of incorrect results made my head spin.   Edited by awallin01
03/24/2014 09:49 am
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Trent says:"The United States Mint produces circulating coins in six denominations: one cent (penny), five cents (nickel), ten cents (dime), twenty-five cents (quarter dollar), fifty cents (half-dollar), and one dollar." Here is an interesting point about the term "penny". Have you every seen an album for U.S. Pennies? I've only seen the albums for "Cents". You have albums for all other coins he mentioned in brackets. Shield nickels, Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, Jefferson nickels, Franklin half dollars, Morgan dollars ETC. But you never find an album for Lincoln Pennies. People who call them pennies are mostly not collectors. Only us collectors are sticklers for the term Cents. Ever try to find a coin wrapper that says it is for cents? I think I've seen only one. |
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United States
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They probably did that so not to confuse the average non-collector who looks at their website. The mint probably got a million emails asking where does the Penny fit in with this new One Cent thing?
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Coop, I know what you're saying and totally agree. I just though it was funny to find it on the mint's site, but it's probably like Jayman931 said. Oddy with a quick search I was surprised to find this Dansco. Never seen that older red version before. :)  and this folder:  I suspect the coin collecting hobby had become more sophisticated over the past century. Edited by trent
03/24/2014 12:46 pm
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United States
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Well that is a first time I've seen that. Their is an exception to every rule. Danscos do tone BU coins in their albums. Not a safe way to store BU coins in albums. Best in 2X2's or no PVC flips. Even the square tubes that are soft, turn coins hazy. The stiff square and round tubes are better.
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And this folder..ya..ya.. I know it Canadian, but you get the point...   |
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United States
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Did they call them pennies in Canada?
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United States
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Cents in Canada.
(unfortunately I was unable to Google image search a pic of a Terrance and/or Phillip head on a Canadian cent)
Coincidental from my Candian ex-girlfriend, they from time to time British pennies (real pennies) mixed in with their cents and they're pretty used to treating them as a normal cents. The same as the US is used to seeing Canadian cents.
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03/24/2014 12:44 pm
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No coop...My Dad always called then cents and when I inherited his collection (modest as it is), I continued to call them cents and most of the people I know in this hobby do to. |
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I also use the terms 5 cents...10 cents...25 cents..etc.
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Canada
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Dont forget 2 bits, haha and loon.
We do have-large cent and small cent though
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United States
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Of course, one day I went to the bank and made the "mistake" of asking for ten dollars worth of "cents". The teller looked at me like I had asked for a bag of squirrels and said, "Do you mean pennies?"
Dave
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Colloquially it's known as pennies. It's like calling a dollar a buck or a bone. Yeah, things have official names but that doesn't mean that people don't have slangs.
If you're talking about the unit, the word on the street is cents. If you're talking about the coin, few people will actually call it a "one cent" or a "cent" for they will call it a penny.
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The "cent" boxes I get from my bank say "pennies"  |
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03/24/2014 1:41 pm
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