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Does this mean that the Neanderthals were German? Sort of...  From Wikipedia: Quote:
The Neandertal is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 12 km (7.5 mi) east of Düsseldorf. Neanderthal is now spelled two ways: the old spelling of the German word Thal, meaning "valley or dale", was changed to Tal in 1901, but the former spelling is often retained in English and always in scientific names, while the modern spelling is used in German while referring to the valley itself. |
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I say just look at the pictures of the(penny,cent,$00.01,)coin that is posted.  And I do believe we all here on this forum should be able to figure out what it is they are talking about. Are we not here to study coins for the rarity and errors and such regardless how its pronounced?  Here is a newspaper add using that wrong term so I guess newspaper writers don't know the correct terminology ether. Myself I could careless what its called.  Image:  WIWOOpenny05_1176.jpg11.7 KB World's Largest Penny
Woodruff, Wisconsin
The World's Largest Penny commemorates a 1953 fundraising stunt. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb (known locally as "The Angel On Snowshoes") implored local school children to save their pennies so that Woodruff could build a hospital. TV picked up on the story and pennies were soon pouring in from all over the country -- 1.7 million in all.
Woodruff got its hospital, and the schoolchildren of 1953 are just about ready to enter the new assisted living facility behind the pennyEdited by coindexter
09/17/2008 02:46 am
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Looks like penny pincher needs to change his handle to cent pincher. |
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Here is a penny for your thoughts !  and here is a cent for your enjoyment !  Both are beautiful in their own right and each has its own Identity ! |
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It's not that difficult to tell whether a US coin is a cent or a penny. It tells you right on it in the biggest lettering on the coin. Just because some idiot at the bank calls them pennies doesn't mean you have to compound the error. They call Brass Bucks "Gold Dollars", too. How much per ounce are you paying for gold? If someone offered you a 1972s silver dollar, wouldn't you expect a silver clad version? Take your cue from the Standard Catalog of World Coins or the RedBook. Neither shows a penny as a US coin. If we're going to be the coin experts, we should at least learn to use the proper terms. Maybe grandpa called any old car a Ford, but no car collector would ever call a Chevy a Ford. |
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Then you don't even use your half dollars, or $2 notes. I wonder why? I think we would be lost over here without the good old 50c and $2 coin. If every collector would get $20 in halves and $50 in $2 out of each paycheck and spend them normally (not giving someone $5 in halves for a $5 purchase), inside six months they would be back in general use. Banks say people don't want them, when the real problem is they don't hand them out. If every time someone had $20 coming, they got two $10, within months no one would "want" $20. "Oh, you want $20? You'll have to order a week in advance and wait 15 minutes when you come in to get them, so we can take them out of the special vault". How many people would ask for $20? |
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Biggfredd is laying it down for all to hear!  |
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ya but all I had in my photos was an english half penny and I figured your thoughts were worth more than that . So I used the Australian penny ,it still has an english monarch on the obverse ! so its close !  |
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ya but all I had in my photos was an english half penny and I figured your thoughts were worth more than that .
Odd we are spending so much time worrying about the usage of PENNY and the vast majority of people use that instead of cent. As I said previously we speak American. Note the first word in the above quote. It's our American version of Yes. Or isn't the Gemanic YA not good in America either. |
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In German, it is "ja" not "ya"...  |
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This is my one cent short of my Two Cents worth :0 |
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Carl your taking this way to seriously ! No one is saying you can't call a US cent a penny were just saying you can't call a US cent a penny in town !  LOL a stolen line from tombstone adapted to the coin forum ! its a joke carl ! really as long as the the topic is specific and has pictures and its obvious what is being asked it really does not matter because the terms have become somewhat interchangeable . no matter my personal thoughts about correctness in the numismatic sense , I don't pick hard at this anymore . I catch myself every once in awhile in idle conversation outside with people who may or may not be collectors saying penny because like most of us I called cents pennies for many years before I became retentive !  |
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LOL a stolen line from tombstone adapted to the coin forum ! I love it! |
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I think it's nice that a British name for a coin has persisted in America for 300 + - years (?) Our language has always evolved. I don't see a problem. British english, french, spanish, german, etc words and phrases pepper our U.S. english language. I agree that we should effort to be correct when speaking technically. I'm not sure all our forum conversations are necessarily technical. IMHO. I think it's great we have these discussions.
P.S. BiggFredd? Just Carl? Anyone else? Weigh in?
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Posted 09/17/2008 02:42 am
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