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• 1/100 of the British Pound Sterling or the Irish pound ( 1971- 2001), or a coin with that value: see history of the English penny.
• 1/240 of the British pound sterling or Irish Pound prior to February 15, 1971, and also the pre- decimalisation currencies of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (1/12 of the shilling), or a coin of that value.
• a standard but unofficial name for the one-cent coin of the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe, worth 1/100 of the dollarAlternate uses: Dollar (disambiguation The dollar is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions (see list below). It is represented by the symbol . The name is related to the historic currencies Tolar in Bohemia: see penny (U.S. coin)The United States one-cent coin commonly called a penny is a unit of currency equaling one 1/100 of a United States dollar. Its obverse has featured the profile of President Abraham Lincoln since 1909, the centennial of his birth. Since 1959 (the sesquice. Note that this word is not used by the official United States MintThe United States Mint is responsible for producing and circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The US Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act on April 2, 1792, within the Department of State, located in Phil; they use cent.

In the USA and Canada, "penny" is normally used to refer to the coin; the quantity of money is a " centCent can refer to: Cent (currency) a one-hundredth subdivision of several units of currency. Cent (music) a logarithmic measure of relative pitch or intervals. cent (card game) Cent is also a Latin prefix meaning 100. The Greek equivalent is hecta-. Examp". Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, the plural of "penny" is "pence" when referring to a quantity of money and "pennies" when referring to a number of coins. Thus a coin worth five times as much as one penny is worth five pence, but "five pennies" means five coins each of which is a penny.

In Canada, penny originally referred to pence coinage that they used until 1859 since there was a coin with the word "penny" on it (for pence). Since this was a term that they used for many years, the One Cent denomination stayed with the penny nickname ever since. The Royal Canadian Mint and the Federal Government of Canada don't officially call the One Cent coin a penny but a "One Cent" coin.

When dealing with British money, amounts of the decimal "new pence" less than £1 may be suffixed with "p", as in 2p, 5p, 26p, 72p. Pre- 1971 amounts of less than 1/- (one shilling) were denoted with a "d" which derived from the term " denarius", as in 2d, 6d, 10d.