Coin vs. Penny — What's the Difference?

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 to facilitate trade.

A penny is a coin (pl. pennies) or a unit of currency (pl.

A flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money

In the United States and Canada, the coin that is worth one cent.

Make (coins) by stamping metal

Abbr. p. A coin used in Great Britain since 1971, worth 1/100 of a pound. Also called new penny.

Invent (a new word or phrase)

Abbr. d. A coin formerly used in Great Britain, worth 1/12 of a shilling or 1/240 of a pound.

A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.

A coin formerly used in the Republic of Ireland, worth 1/100 of a pound.

Metal money considered as a whole.

A coin used in various dependent territories of the United Kingdom.

A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money

Any of various coins of small denomination.

A mode of expression considered standard

A sum of money.

Variant of quoin.

Variant of pinny.

To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike

(Informal) A pinafore.

To make pieces of money from (metal)

Or penny(Sports) One of a set of uniformly colored, usually sleeveless shirts worn as a temporary team uniform, as when scrimmaging.

To devise (a new word or phrase).

(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth 240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.

Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation

In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth 100 of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

(historical) In Ireland, a coin worth 100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.

Money in general, not limited to coins.

A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

Money in general.

A corner or external angle.

(slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.

A small circular slice of food.

(electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.

(Oxbridge slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink such that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

Denoting the weight in pounds for one thousand; - used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

Worth or costing one penny; as, penny candy.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

A former English coin, originally of copper, then of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; - usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; - much used in a collective sense.

Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.

That which serves for payment or recompense.

See Denarius.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

A fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

Of phrases or words

Form by stamping, punching, or printing;