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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 279911, member: 4626&quot;]Doesn&#039;t read &quot;nickel&quot; anywhere on a nickel but few have problems with it being called as such.&nbsp; &quot;Penny&quot; may not be the official name for the coin but it&#039;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&#039;t look like it&#039;s going to be abandoned anytime soon.&nbsp; 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 &quot;penny&quot; to refer to a US coin worth 1/100 of a dollar is certaintly conventional.&nbsp; Besides, since 1971 the British penny has been worth the same fraction of a pound as the US &quot;penny&quot; is of a dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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