Talk:Penny (Canadian coin)
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Two-cent penny?
[edit]When and where was the original penny worth two cents? TooManyFingers (talk) 23:25, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- The Canadian penny was never worth two cents, as far as a I know, and the article does not mention that. Meters (talk) 23:29, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- From the lead section: "Originally, "penny" referred to a two-cent coin." TooManyFingers (talk) 06:35, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- (As far as I know, a penny was never two cents anywhere in the world - that was why I asked.) TooManyFingers (talk) 06:38, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, I missed that. As I said, as far as I know the Canadian penny was never worth two cents. Coins of the Canadian dollar does not mention such a coin either. English coinage has a two-penny coin, but Penny makes no mention of it ever having been "a penny". I suspect that this is a hoax (from 2009), but even if not, it is unsourced. I have removed it. Thanks for bringing it up. Meters (talk) 06:59, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- (As far as I know, a penny was never two cents anywhere in the world - that was why I asked.) TooManyFingers (talk) 06:38, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Picture sizes
[edit]@Joeyconnick: Why should large coins and small coins be falsely portrayed as the same size? The pre-1920 pennies are one inch, the post-1920 ones are ¾ inch. TooManyFingers (talk) 00:20, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- Because we don't display things to scale in Wikipedia articles. We represent how things look, not their relative sizes. —Joeyconnick (talk) 02:54, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- It seems to me that in this particular case the relative size is very much a salient feature of "how things look", since a one-inch penny does indeed look big - i.e. arguably the pictures all being of matched size serves to obscure how these items look. TooManyFingers (talk) 06:56, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Is a penny one cent
[edit]One cent 2607:FEA8:680:1510:F5B1:5860:4FE0:2530 (talk) 01:23, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
additions in "Large cents (1858–1920)"
[edit]There's a lot of new content here that is not specific to the penny and should be moved to a more general article on Canadian currency or coinage. —Joeyconnick (talk) 20:37, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I mean it could go straight into talking about the penny, but I thought some brief context would be helpful. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:50, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
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