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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 458633, member: 4626&quot;]Don&#039;t own any slabs.&nbsp; (Well I own one, but it&#039;s of a half dollar, so no help there.&nbsp; Can tell you it just says &quot;50c&quot; not &quot;half dollar&quot; but TPGs are not official governing bodies that decide what are and are not the correct terms for names of coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you that when I go to the bank, the paper rolls say &quot;pennies&quot; on the side, not &quot;cents.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Cent&quot; may be the official term, but I&#039;ve heard &quot;penny&quot; used far more frequently, and in the end, it&#039;s how a word is used that defines its meaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>For that matter, the term &quot;nickel&quot; is not official either, but I guarantee you&#039;ll probably never run into anyone who doesn&#039;t know what you mean when you use the term.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no official governing body in this country that determines what is and is not proper grammar, or what the official names of coins should be, or what words mean.&nbsp; It&#039;s just based on general consensus and common usage.&nbsp; And in common usage in American English, a &quot;penny&quot; is used to refer to a coin worth one US cent.&nbsp; So is the word &quot;cent.&quot;&nbsp; So both terms are correct, in the sense they are commonly understood.&nbsp; You&#039;re entitled to your opinion as to which is the better term to use, but you can&#039;t really say either is &quot;incorrect&quot; in the sense that there&#039;s some rule carved in stone somewhere that determines what words mean and what they don&#039;t mean.&nbsp; A word means whatever it is commonly used to mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>And with that, I&#039;m leaving the poor dead horse alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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