A one-cent coin or one-cent piece is a small-value

coin A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to ...

minted for various decimal currencies using the

cent Cent may refer to: Currency * Cent (currency), a one-hundredth subdivision of several units of currency * Penny (Canadian coin), a Canadian coin removed from circulation in 2013 * 1 cent (Dutch coin), a Dutch coin minted between 1941 and 1944 * ...

as their hundredth subdivision. Examples include: * the United States one-cent coin, better known as the

US penny The cent, the United States one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States dollar. It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition o ...

* the Canadian one-cent piece, better known as the Canadian penny * the

Australian one-cent coin The cent, formally the one-cent coin, was the lowest-denomination coin of the Australian dollar. It was introduced on 14 February 1966 in the decimalisation of Australian currency and was withdrawn from circulation in 1992 (along with the tw ...

* the

New Zealand one-cent coin The New Zealand one-cent coin was the smallest denomination coin of the New Zealand dollar from the currency's introduction in 1967 to its demonetisation, along with the two-cent coin, on 30 April 1990.http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/notes-and-coins/coi ...

* the Hong Kong one-cent coin * the Singapore one-cent coin * the Brunei one-cent coin * the one-cent coin of the decimal Dutch guilder (Netherlands) * the

1 cent euro coin The 1 euro cent coin (€0.01) has a value of one hundredth of a euro and is composed of copper-covered steel. It is the lowest-value coin in the Eurozone, the next highest are the 2 and 5 euro cent coins. The coins of every Euro country hav ...

used in several European countries known as the eurozone * the one-cent coin of the South African rand

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