Large cent
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Large cent can refer to:
- the United States one-cent coin minted until 1857; see Large cent (United States coin)Large cent (United States coin)The United States large cent was a coin with a face value of 1/100 of a United States dollar. Its diameter varied between 27mm and 29mm. The first official mintage of the large cent was in 1793, and its production continued until 1857, when it was officially replaced by the modern-size one-cent...
. - the Canadian one-cent coinPenny (Canadian coin)In Canada, a penny is a coin worth one cent or of a dollar. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official national term of the coin is the "one-cent piece", but in practice the term penny or cent is universal. Originally, "penny" referred to a two-cent coin. When the two-cent coin was...
minted until 1920.