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So the upload wont work but this coin is silver in color on the reverse and the obverse is brown. Whats the deal with this  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Why, when Americans see a coin that plainly says the word "penny" on it, do they insist on calling it a "cent"?  For it most certainly is not a "cent". It is a "penny", worth 1/12th of a shilling or 1/240th of a pound. Back in 1937, it had an exchange rate value of about 2 US cents. As for your question about the colour: it is made of a very similar alloy to American cents, so it should be coppery-brown in colour. It appears to be some kind of odd toning or environmental damage. It certainly isn't a mint error. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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 Canada
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 When Americans see "cent" they call it "penny". Why then is the OP incorrect? Shouldn't a "penny" then be called a "cent" Aren't the names interchangeable? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Poland
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Why, when Americans see a coin that plainly says the word "penny" on it, do they insist on calling it a "cent"? And the other way round as well: why, when Americans see a coin that plainly says the word "cent" on it, do they insist on calling it a "penny"?  |
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United Kingdom
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It's incorrect to refer to a British penny of this era as a cent because "cent" derives from the Latin "centum" or "one hundred" and a British penny, as Sap says, was not a 100th of anything but it was a 1/240th of a pound.
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Australia
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A Penny is a Penny and a cent is a cent. The denomination of one penny is there on a Brit, South African or Australian Penny, So it IS a Penny Not a cent. The American coin has one cent on the coin so it IS a cent although for some strange reason it has the "Nickname" of a penny.  |
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Australia
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Australia has a rich history for nicknames for their pre decimal currency.
This coin is not a 'CENT' coin; it is a PENNY;
240 of them (not 100) are equal in value to One Pound.
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08/25/2016 5:41 pm
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United States
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United States
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A cogent argument could be made for calling a "new penny" (post-decimalization 1/100th of a £) a cent. The word cent comes from late Middle English, where it was used to describe a coin worth 1/100th of a decimal monetary unit.
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