A five-cent coin or five-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 t ...

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 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 (Nickel) (originally called a "zac") is the lowest-denomination circulating coin of the decimal Australian dollar introduced in 14 February 1966, replacing the pre-decimal sixpence. It has been the lowest-denomina ...

* the New Zealand five-cent coin (withdrawn in 2006 due to low monetary value) * the Hong Kong five-cent coin (withdrawn in 1989 due to low monetary value) * the Singapore five-cent coin * the Brunei five-cent coin * the five-cent coin of the decimal Dutch guilder (Netherlands), also called stuiver (withdrawn in 2001 due to introduction of the euro) * the 5 cent euro coin used in several European countries known as the eurozone * the five-cent coin of the South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