Penny (Canadian coin)
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| Penny (Canada) | |
| Value: | 0.01 CAD |
| Mass: | 2.35 g |
| Diameter: | 19.05 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.45 mm |
| Edge: | Smooth |
| Composition: | 94% steel, 1.5% Ni, 4.5% Cu plating |
| Obverse | |
| Design: | Queen Elizabeth II, Canada's Queen |
| Designer: | Susanna Blunt |
| Design Date: | 2003 |
| Reverse | |
| Design: | Maple leaf twig |
| Designer: | G.E. Kruger-Gray |
| Design Date: | 1937 |
In Canada a penny is a coin worth one cent or 1/100th of a dollar. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official national term of the coin is the "1 cent coin", but in practice the term penny or cent is universal. Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds and pence as coinage.
In Canadian French, the penny is also called a cent, which is spelled the same way as the French word for "hundred" but is pronounced (and occasionally spelt) cenne. Slang terms include cenne noire or sou noir, "black penny."
Like all Canadian coins, on the obverse is Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
The current coin has a round, smooth edge, and this has been the case for most of its history; however, from 1982 to 1996, the coin was twelve-sided.
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