EBAY Pennies

What do you think about this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/COLL-OF-KEY-DAT...oryZ3358QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

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Could be a winner but I really doubt it.

The TOUGH DATE and VERY TOUGH date may be a bit under rated in some peoples eyes but nothing spectacular.

I'd pass on it and assemble my own rolls.

 

I'm surprised no one here has blown a gasket over the use of the word "pennies".

 

why? Whats wrong with Penny? Should you use "cent" instead?

 

Yes but I'm beginning to overlook it

Does it read Penny anywhere on a cent?

 

actually those rolls bid at about that price, you'd have to find some higher grade early dates to make any $$ on that deal

 

Cent !!

 

Kinda hard to tell when they're wrapped up though. That's why I'd stay away.

 

penny is a British coin.

 

Doesn't read "nickel" anywhere on a nickel but few have problems with it being called as such. "Penny" may not be the official name for the coin but it's been traditionally used for more than 200 years (even longer than that if you count the British and English coins the name derives from) and doesn't look like it's going to be abandoned anytime soon. There is no official governing body on English usage; the only thing that governs usage is generally accepted convention, and the use of the word "penny" to refer to a US coin worth 1/100 of a dollar is certaintly conventional. Besides, since 1971 the British penny has been worth the same fraction of a pound as the US "penny" is of a dollar.

 

"Penny" was Lincoln's name when he cross-dressed.
I SWEAR !!

 

LOL LOL LOL

 

roto:
That's one for you!

 

Yeah, why is nickel ok but penny not?

We don't get upset when the Canadian $1 and $2 are called Loonies or Twoonies either.

 

Aint't THAT big of a deal to me honestly. It is a cent but I don't lose sleep over it.

NOW AS FOR NICKELS! We refer to them as half dimes in our household. LOL

clembo

 

Technically, the US one-cent coins have never been officially designated as "pennies". The name came from the pre-decimal British one-pence coin.

 

Sorta like the 8 Reales coins: Now we call a quarter 2 bits

 

Never could figure out why some people rant and rave about pennies instead of cents. Many, many songs and movies with PENNIES. Possibly half the country says PENNIES. All kids say PENNIES. In this country we also have bucks for dollars, 2 bits for a quarter, fin for a five dollar bill, as noted nickel for a nickel and many others for many denominations. That is just one more nice thing about America. We can call anything anything we want and out language is not English, it's American. Becoming less and less the same. Now doesn't that make CENTS?

 

Now just imagine if all those coins were so badly worn it would take an electron microscope to verify the dates.