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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 324660, member: 5629&quot;]People get worked up about it because that&#039;s not the legal name for the coin.&nbsp; &quot;Penny&quot; is more of a pet name for the cent.&nbsp; That would be like calling a child &quot;princess&quot; as a pet name, when her real name is Susan.&nbsp; If people started going around calling your girl &quot;Princess&quot;, you would get quite upset, wouldn&#039;t you? Since you have a close relationship with her, you would want people to refer to her by her proper name, not her pet name.&nbsp; Well, people who know and use the name &quot;cent&quot; usually have devoted a lot of time and effort in studying her <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; So to hear people nonchalantly referring to her as &quot;penny&quot; is an atrocity...especially when that&#039;s her cousin&#039;s name!</p><p><br /></p><p>But, realistically now, the mint article you refer to calls the cent a cent eight different times.&nbsp; yet, the term &quot;penny&quot; is only used five times, including the title.&nbsp; And one of those times, they point out that the coin is *commonly* called &quot;penny&quot; while the coin itself says &quot;Cent&quot;.&nbsp; The way I prefer to look at it is the mint uses the words &quot;cent&quot; and &quot;penny&quot; interchangeably, pointing out that &quot;Cent&quot; is what is actually on the coin, to get people used to the term &quot;cent&quot; (since it is used more frequently in the article) as opposed to &quot;penny&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, then again, we&#039;re talking about the U.S. Mint here...you never know with those people. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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