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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 485582, member: 8703&quot;]When I talk with casual or non-collectors, or just people who show general interest in coins, &quot;penny&quot; is fine.&nbsp; If I talk with a fellow collector, the coin is a &#039;cent.&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>My screen name is the word I had always used for 1909-1958 wheat cents when I began collecting as a nine-year old.&nbsp; It still sticks with me, 39 years later and always remains my favorite coin to find on the extremely rare occasion when they happen to arrive in change.&nbsp; Brightens my day.</p><p><br /></p><p>If any of our members read Q. David Bowers&#039; column in the December 15, 2008 edition of Coin World about the first day of availability of Flying Eagle Cents on May 25, 1857, directly at the doors of the Philadelphia Mint, the 88% nickel thick cents were called, &quot;nicks.&quot;&nbsp; What I liked in particular in Bowers&#039; article was the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper calling the new cents affectionately, &quot;diminutive little strangers.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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