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penny

• n. a bronze coin valued at one hundredth part of a Canadian dollar, adopted officially as Canadian currency in 1858; also, the value of this coin.

  See also: cent  

  • Although both penny and copper have long been used in Canadian informal speech, many Canadians still associate the former with usage in the United States, where it has been used for "cent"for over a century.