This video from 2011 may have made the rounds here before, but for those who haven't seen it... And yes, it uses the term "penny" throughout. So it goes.
The demise of the cent is bound to happen here in the US. Whether it's in five years, ten years or fifty years from now...it's just a matter of time
Since the video uses pennies instead of cents they obviously don’t know what they are talking about. Call it what you want but flip the coin to it’s reverse and it on the coin CENTS.
I hope the mint continues to make the cent for Proof and Mint sets as it has done for the Kennedy Half Dollar and other coins. The cent has virtually continuous date run from 1793 to date, except for 1815.
The problem there is the mint is government and they don’t pay attention to anyone or anything. They just do what they want and call it a good job.
I think it'd be cool if we quit making the penny for circulation and instead minted it in bronze for collectors, similar to the half and dollar. I'd love to see the shield design in bronze and with a little bit higher relief.
Now with the people that don't like pennies. Thats fine, but the other countries that use US dollars as their own currencies and others some what - do they use US coins down to the penny too ??? I know that Ecuador uses dollar coins Here is the countries on the list I looked up -Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba, St. Kitts and Nevis, Liberia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Panama, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Costa Rica, Micronesia, Palau, Timor-Leste, Zimbabwe, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, Ecuador, El Salvador, Marshall Islands link - https://www.businessinsider.com/usd-countries-use-dollars-as-currency-2018-5
Since the pandemic, it seems that just about every coin is obsolete, including the quarter, which used to be the workhorse. Everything seems to be bought with plastic or a cell phone.
If you don't like cents / pennies, then don't use them. Someone else will. Then what are you going to do with all those people that search pennies for errors, and collect circulated coinage ?
I wouldn't dismiss it so quickly on such a minor point. The video likely wanted to target the general public, the majority of which use the term "penny." Only coin collectors really get uptight about the usage of "cent" over "penny." So it makes sense to use the more familiar term for a video designed for the general public. The video does point out that the reverse of the coin says "cent." I think I would have done the same thing, honestly. More than a few times, I've used the word "cent" in general conversation and people didn't know what I was talking about. When I said "penny" they instantly knew what I meant.
The people responsible for the US Mint website seem in general to do a very good job presenting clear, understandable text. Part of that is meeting your audience on their own terms. The Mint's audience is familiar with the idiomatic "penny" for a US one-cent coin, and the Mint wisely chooses to use that term. English is a living language, which means it changes over time. Yeah, some current changes bug me, too. But not enough to switch to Latin.
Penny = 1 cent coin Nickel = 5 cent coin Dime = 10 cent coin Quarter = 25 cent coin! Coin wrappers say "Penny" and the United States Mint web site uses the term penny! Just don't understand why it's such a big deal to some!!! Use the term you are comfortable with IMO!!!
I, for one, hadn't viewed that video before, so found it interesting, in respects to statistics of value and use, but would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't just taken a big gulp of coffee when he said, "make it out of plastic or lint." Clean up on Mountain Man's lap. LOL
The dime and the quarter actually say Dime and Quarter on them. Why doesn't any one give grief to the nickel? It says 5 cents on it. Like the penny/ 1 cent issue. Call it 5 cents coin if you insist on cent over penny!
My new hobby: following the folks here who complain about saying "penny" instead of "cent", and pouncing whenever I see them use the term "war nickel".