Why Does The U.S. Mint Call It A "Penny?"

I have to remember as an a italian pasta not spagetti
Jazzcoins Joe

 

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Actually pasta is a kind of general term which includes spaghetti. And while I think that pretty much everybody in the US that this "copper" thingie is a 1 cent coin, what could be wrong with having nicknames for coins?

Christian

 

That's it right there.

The mint calls 'em pennies because so many others do as well. No harm, no foul.

It's like an English teacher fixating on common vernacular or idiom which is "technically" ungrammatical, like the non-word "irregardless". Supposedly, that word doesn't exist, but so many people used it that they finally gave up and put it in the dictionary.

I wonder how many English teachers were put out of work ?

 

Coppers, yes. My Grandmother came to America on the Mauretania. She called them coppers.

 

If you look it up in the dictionary what does it say? To the public, to a man, the value of a penny is 1 cent, and a Nickel 5 cents. They teach it in school like this.


Ruben

 

thats weird. I'd never head that before. It seems the value of a penny these days isn't worthy of such a lofty name.

Ruben

 

Oh Well :headbang: