Talk:Cent (currency)

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Mentioned?

message: :(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)
thread_title:  "Pennies" 

message: 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)
replies: text: . I've removed that text. Pburka (talk) 23:13, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source about mints 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Renaming from Cent (currency) to Cent sign 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: 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:
 
It would be better if the images were scaled appropriately to represent their true relative sizes. Pimlottc 13:39, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 cent coin relative sizes 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Usage 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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  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)
thread_title: Yen?

message: 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)
thread_title:  History of the stroke mark on the cent 

message: 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)
replies: text: Best answer: you write it, using the sources you name. How about that! -DePiep (talk) 23:28, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cent sign popularity 

message: This article is mostly about the concept of "cent" with nothing more than a line or two here and there about the symbol iself and its usage. 
I got here through a link from the page about $, which does not delve into - except perhaps topically - the concept of "dollar", but rather the symbol itself is the main focus.
I was expecting this page to specifically deal with ¢, not the concept of "cent ...thus, history, origins, myths, usage, etc. should such a page exist separately for "¢" and "cent", as is the situation with "$" and "dollar"?
66.176.113.94 (talk) 18:43, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ¢ vs. "cent" 

message: The Australian (ex-)one-cent coin isn't mentioned in the 'Usage' section whereas the now extinct Canadian one-cent coin is.
Will the Canadian entry be removed soon or will a 'Currencies that used to have centesimal units/one cent coins' list be added (or should I just be quiet and stop complaining! ;P)?
Yoyosamo (talk) 08:19, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian 1-cent 

message: Does anyone have a source that goes into the common mistake of using the cent sign with a decimal? (Example:  0.02¢) I see this in many of the same places that I see greengrocer's apostrophes. They get upset when I point out to them that they have marked their goods at a price less than one penny. --Khajidha (talk) 12:15, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misuse with decimal 

message: Not for nothing, but (a) the PRC's fen can be called cents in translation, (b) the ROC's "New Taiwan Dollar" are actually yuan divided into fen that do just get called dollars and cents in translation, and (c) the Old Taiwan Dollar and the Chinese Customs Gold Units were also yuan and fen that got called cents in translation. Our article on the Chinese Gold Yuan is the only one to claim actual division into cents, but it's unsourced on the subject and almost certainly wrong. The gold yuan was actually only divided into jiao (tenths, dimes) and if it was even notionally divisible into hundreds, those units would've officially been fen too. — LlywelynII 00:05, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: China