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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CohibaCris, post: 9066, member: 904&quot;]Hmm, lets see...</p><p>1. The penny term came from the Engligh penny, for which the term&#039;s etemology is somewhat obscure.&nbsp; Cent came from percent, and the fact that the penny was 1/100th of a dollar, or a &quot;percent&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Nickels were originaly made of mostly of the copper/nickel sandwich, but the nickel was on the outside and it looked like nickel.&nbsp; It was originally termed the nickel to distinguish it from the then circulating silver half dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The dime originated from an Old English word &quot;dek&quot; meaning ten.&nbsp; It evolved from that to dime over the centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The word dollar was what english speaking peoples called the Spanish peso, or pieces of eight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helped, it was fun looking it up.</p><p>Cris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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