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The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
This list does not include formerly-circulating gold coins, commemorative coins, or bullion coins. This list also does not include the three-cent nickel, which was largely winding down production by 1887 and has no modern equivalent.
Matron Head large cent, 1816–1839 (Copper except as noted) Year Mint Mintage Comments 1816 (P) 2,820,982 1817 (P) 3,948,400 (P) 5 Proof 1818
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According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official term for the coin is the one-cent piece, but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [citation needed] Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
One of the finest examples is a nickel obverse 1916 P double die, which has sold for between $66,000 and $281,750 due to a rare die anomaly. ... The 1919-D Buffalo Nickel has an estimated value of ...
Lincoln Bicentennial cent "Professional Life", 2009 (Copper-plated Zinc except as noted) [16] Year Mint Mintage Comments 2009 (P) 316,000,000 [11] Professional Life (P) 784,614 [12] Satin uncirculated, struck in Brass: D 336,000,000 [11] Professional Life D 784,614 [12] Satin uncirculated, struck in Brass: S 2,995,615 [9] Proof only, struck in ...
Coins worth 1/100 of a decimalised base currency. ... One-cent coins of the United States (21 P) Pages in category "One-cent coins" ... British one penny coin 1989 ...