Talk:Cent (currency)

Should it be mentioned that the common use in the U.S. and Canada of the term "penny" to refer to the one-cent pieces is inaccurate, the penny only existing in Britain and Ireland (now or formerly)? --Daniel C. Boyer 19:10, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The penny doesn't exist in Ireland anymore (on February 28th 2002 the last of the pennies were taken out of circulation and are now replaced by euro cents) however in the US and Canada they have nicknames for all their coins e.g. dime, quater and a "penny" is 1 cent. --Neal ricketts 22:31, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Cent sign

What it says here isn't correct. While "c" may be used to represent "cent", it is not a cent sign per se. Shall I be bold and revise this section? Evertype 20:21, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Can someone add info in the article on how to type the cent symbol on computer keyboards that don't have it? DBlomgren 16:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Added. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

It depends which currency one is dealing with. The US dollar uses a lower case C with a line through it as a symbol, but cents of other currencies such as the Euro and Rand use a plain lower case C.

"Pennies"

(In the UK and pre-euro Ireland, the name of the 1p coin is also penny, pl. pence.)

But the plural of the coin is "pennies" ("I saw two pennies on the ground")-- "pence" is the plural of the monetary amount ("it costs fifty pence"). 66.92.237.111 20:36, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Source about mints

I don't believe all the claims about "most mints", "many countries" and such. It seems to me like someone pretty much generalised from the US (and maybe Canadian) situation. RandomP 22:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Source about the cent sign

I believe the cent symbol is used almost exclusively in conjunction with the dollar symbol, and in particular is not used for the euro. I might be wrong about that, so I'm asking for sources. RandomP 22:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I have seen the cent sign in use in handwritten signage in shops in Ireland. Evertype 08:17, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for splitting up my question, it certainly is easier to discuss that way.

I'd like to see a source that says this is the usual state of affairs, though. I believe the usual way of doing this is to write out cent, or use the euro sign with a decimal fraction.

But I could be wrong, and I'm not going to remove your anecdotal evidence to replace it with my own :-)

RandomP 14:08, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The cent sign is seen only very occasionally here in Ireland, just as American English is occasionally seen and heard. The normal usage is a plain "c". Rwxrwxrwx 20:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The "cent" sign also serves for the colon sign in Costa Rica, so it's not exclusive to US currency. DBlomgren 16:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

No, the colón sign ₡ is different. It has 2 slashes. If you can't see it due to font or system problem, see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Renaming from Cent (currency) to Cent sign

Why? This article is not just about the sign, but also about the unit. If you want to standardize naming (xyz sign), then you should fork off a new article. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 19:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Etymology

Can someone clarify for me why this part is important: "and is related to the Greek εκατόν (hekaton)". I was going to delete it but I thought I'd ask here first. The word centum is also related to virtually every other word for "hundred" in every Indo-European language; don't see how Greek is special here (besides being on the same side of the Centum-Satem isogloss along with rest of Western Europe). cab 03:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I may be quibbling here, but the etymology of cent actually goes back to centesimum (only one 's'), a hundredth, and centesimum goes back to centum. 216.99.219.151 (talk) 06:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

1 cent coin relative sizes

The juxtaposition of the images of the US penny and Euro cent makes it look like the penny is almost twice the size of the euro cent:
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It would be better if the images were scaled appropriately to represent their true relative sizes. Pimlottc 13:39, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Usage

I don't understand the inclusion of New Taiwan dollar in the "Usage" section. The smallest common unit in Taiwan is the dollar. Even prior to recent times the smallest unit was the 1/2 dollar to my understanding. I don't know of any time when there were pennies or cents in usage in Taiwan. I would recommend removing this link unless a case can be made to retain it. --DRead (talk) 01:36, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Yen?

The Yen hasn't been divided into 100 sen (or 1 000 rin for that matter) since 1953. Consequently I have removed this from the "Usage" section. Dazcha (talk) 14:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

The yen is still split into 100 sen, but it is not possible to use any units less than 1 yen for paying anything. The sen is seen at several places, for example when specifyingwiki currency exchange rates. And when I lived in Japan, my electricity bill listed the prices in sen, although the sum of all fees was rounded off to the nearest yen. For an actual example, see [1] where the contents of various fields in the "Financial Information" section are rounded off to the nearest sen (instead of yen). (212.247.11.156 (talk) 23:50, 22 January 2010 (UTC))

History of the stroke mark on the cent

How far back does the vertical stroke on the cent sign go?

Was it ever a horizontal stroke? 216.99.219.151 (talk) 06:38, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Section: "Examples of currencies which do feature cents under another (local) name"

The subtitle suggests that these currencies actually use cents, but by some local quirk or affectation people choose to call them something else. This is utterly assinine, akin to suggesting for example that the US Dollar is actually divided into 100 kopeks, but for some reason those silly Americans insist on calling their kopeks "cents". Some currency units, such as various national flavours of Dollar, or the Euro, are divided into cents. Others are not. Sterling is divided into pence, the Rouble is divided into kopeks, etc. These units are NOT cents.

Perhaps the list is aiming to to exemplify some currencies that have a centesimal (1/100) unit that is not called cent. I would change the title accordingly but I must question the need for this list (and the others) in the first place, since all but a few countries in the world have a currency with centesimal units, and the name of the unit is obviously going to vary from one to the next.

I would suggest the end of this article needs to be reworked to remove the cultural bias.

86.178.61.11 (talk) 11:07, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I've changed the list headings to remove the cultural bias, but I do question the need for the lists at all. Decimal currencies are the norm, a list showing currencies that use 1/100 fractional values is pointless since it is (virtually) all of them. What is of interest of currencies that do not. If there are no objections posted here I will revisit the article in the near and future and bodly edit...

I've also reworded the sentence on the pre-decimal British currency. It wasn't divided into shillings or pence, it was divided into shillings and pence. A minor semantic difference, but an important one! Petecollier (talk) 14:26, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Cent sign popularity

A number of Internet sites talk about the cent sign as something that is today extremely rare compared with how common it was for most of the twentieth century. This article makes no reference to any version of this statement. Any suggestions on what to put in the article?? Georgia guy (talk) 20:37, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Best answer: you write it, using the sources you name. How about that! -DePiep (talk) 23:28, 21 July 2011 (UTC)