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

coin A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, 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 facilitate trade. They are most often issued by ...

minted for various decimal currencies using the cent as their hundredth subdivision. Examples include: * the United States five-cent coin, better known as the US nickel * the Canadian five-cent coin, better known as the Canadian nickel * the

Australian five-cent coin The Australian five-cent coin is the lowest-denomination circulating coin of the decimal Australian dollar introduced on 14 February 1966, replacing the pre-decimal sixpence. It has been the lowest-denomination coin in general circulation sinc ...

* the

New Zealand five-cent coin The New Zealand five-cent coin was the lowest denomination coin of the New Zealand dollar from 1990 to 2006. The five-cent coin was introduced when the New Zealand dollar was introduced on 10 July 1967, replacing the New Zealand sixpence coin. On ...

(withdrawn in 2006 due to low monetary value) * the Hong Kong five-cent coin (withdrawn in 1989 due to low monetary value) * the Singapore five-cent coin * the Brunei five-cent coin * the five-cent coin of the decimal Dutch guilder (Netherlands), also called stuiver (withdrawn in 2001 due to introduction of the euro) * the 5 cent euro coin used in several European countries known as the eurozone * the five-cent coin of the South African rand

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