| Show america has ha no since the issue of the lincoln on one cent piece the treasury his las taken occasion to remind the public that there Is no such coin properly as a penny of united states mintage 1 true there Is 1 not but the people give such names as they to things ot of common use and penny they have decided to call it even the bankers who handle most centa cents never are so precise as to say that word in refer ring to the coin itself there Is no such thing as a nick el either known to authority but the language has minted them and put them into general circulation con tersely the eagle I 1 Is a good and it would seem a more convenient namo name for the W li gold piece but the PC people 0 have chosen rather to speak of it by its full descriptive title perhaps it if the 5 piece had been named eagle officially it would have been called so the sovereign Is denominated as euch such in popular speech when not no called a quid and to the french 20 franc coin the name of louts clings in a republican age but penny Is the word of centuries of english speech for the copper or bronze token of value and now de scribes the one hundredth part of a dollar more convincingly than the latin word cent |
