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[edit] "Slang" vs Official

I disagree with the recent change to call the coins by their "official" names instead of their common everyday names. Especially for the coins < $1, their names are not at all slangy in the usual sense of the word. Penny, Nickel, etc are the usual Canadian English names for these coins. Formal gov't publications may refer to them as "1 cent coin", "5 cent coin", etc, but to the best of my knowledge there is nothing officially mandating those terms as official names for the coins; I think of these terms as formal government descriptions of the coins. Even if the [Royal Canadian Mint|mint] of some other official source said that "1 cent coin" was the official name, and not penny, I would still prefer to use the normal Canadian English names here. These are also the names used for the articles for the coins. --thirty-seven 05:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm satisfied with the most rencent change, dropping the word "coin" from the name of each of the coins. As it currently is, listing the monetary value of each coin with its common name in brackets, looks fine to me. --thirty-seven 18:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)