Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — United States Has No “Penny." [ARTICLE]

United States Has No “Penny. "

The habit of calling the one-cent piece of our American coinage a "penny” is utterly without foundation or excuse, We have no penny in our coinage. At one time half-cent pieces were coined but now the unit is one cent, the hundredth part of a dollar.