CENT vs PENNY.. What is the correct term?

None of this makes any sense.

 

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Or any cents

 

I see you saw what I was doing there.

 

But wait..... as in the US as well as other countries different sang is used examples here East coast mid Atlantic if you buy something it put in a" bag" mid west it's put in a" sack."
Same thing with are you thirsty ? Would you like a soda,a pop, a coke ?
So different areas different words same meanings.
Here I have heard both cent and penny usage interchangeable depending a pond background .
I have heard can you lend me 5 cents as well as a nickel.
Again social as well as geographic background can make for a play on words.
As for my self I use both cent and penny as well as pennies depending on situation .

 

And surely you meant it's.
Unless you were referring to the cousin on Adams Family.

 

Shirley you meant Addams Family and Cousin Itt.

 

Yes you are right! Addams Family as stated on these Authentic Addams Family JFK colorized collectors coins!

 

Don't call me Shirley!

 

Fifty penny is a very large nail. What ever happened to "half a rock"?

 

I was referring to the first word in his sentence.

 

I'm not sure I understand the comparison. As far as I know, there was never a circulating "mill", but gas prices are still denominated to the mill. For that matter, my online brokerage quotes stock prices to the tenth of a mill.

 

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Maybe one of the older members can chime in and tell us what a half cent was called back in the day.

 

There were many states that issued circulating tax tokens denominated in mills in the previous century

 

Funny that some resort to caps and bold to push their opinion. That's a sign of fighting a lost cause.

It's also funny that justifying the use of the word "cent" just because that word is on the coin (which bears the words "one cent"), while justifying the name "nickel" for the five cent coin (bearing the words "five cents") because it's made of the metal nickel. With that logic the one cent coin should be called a copper (or zinc).

US coins have values and names:

$0.01 coin - value one cent - name Penny
$0.05 coin - value five cents - name Nickel
$0.10 coin - value ten cents - name Dime
$0.25 coin - value twenty-five cents - name Quarter
$0.50 coin - value fifty cents - name Half Dollar
$1.00 coin - value one hundred cents - Dollar (coin)

The word you use depends only on whether you're referring to the coin's value, or its name.

 

You mean a trime?

 

As a numismatist I like the term cent, it is technically correct. However, it's fine to use penny too!

 

You are extremely wrong. At the time the U.S monetary system was set up, during the 1790s, 100 'pennies' did NOT equal one British pound. Twelve 'pence' (the correct plural of 'penny') equaled one shilling, and twenty shillings equaled one pound. This pence/shilling/pound system persisted until 1971 when Britain went decimal, and 100 'new pence' (later simplified to 'pence') equaled one pound. The word 'pennies' is correct only when referring to more than one one-penny coin.
BTW, the U.S. has never issued a 'penny.' The one-cent coin is called a (surprise!) cent. This should be especially critical to numismatists, or the those who pretend to be. Widespread popular ignorance does not make 'penny' correct.

 

Well, if you're a purist then it's a cent. If you're an average Joe it's a penny. I've been on many a coin forum when somebody gets called to the carpet for calling it a penny. Life's too short folks!!