Question/Poll

Should the US Mint change the Reverse of the cent to read Penny

 

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That should only be done if the British invade the US -- and win.

 

I wanted to vote for both of the last two choices.

 

No, but they should change the obverse and get rid of Lincoln.

 

You forgot option #4 of do away with it altogether. There's my vote.

 

Option #4 as well, if the mint can't make a decent cent then don't make one.

 

How about dropping a stupid argument that should have ended 50 years ago? Is that a choice?

 

If so then the rest of our coins should be changed 5 pennies, 10 pennies, 25 pennies and 50 pennies to avoid confusion....

 

Cent is the official name, and should stay that way.
"Penny" is more of a slang term.

 

No. A penny is a British coin that goes back over a thousand years. A cent, as the name implies, is 1/100th of a dollar. The British penny is now worth 1/100th of a pound, but that has only been in place since 1971.

A cent and a penny are not the same thing. The U.S. coin was originally patterned after the large British copper piece, but it was part of the U.S. system, not the British.

 

In the world of coinage, a penny and a cent are two different things, representing different monetary systems and different values.

 

I wanted to vote for the last 2 choices but I had to settle for no.