What do you call 5 cents

Or you could use "How would you say". The question would be "How do you say In the US, 1 cent is a penny, 5 cents is a nickel, and 10 cents is a dime. I don't think there's a coin for 50 cents, or if so it's not commonly used. But if it exists it would be called a half-dollar coin or a cent coin. Your question is grammatically correct, but it would sound better to say, "What do you call a 5-cent, cent, and cent coin? Hope that helps. They keep trying to introduce 1 dollar coins here with little success.

First we had the "Susan B. Anthony" dollar coins which looked and felt so much like our quarters 25 cent pieces that people were always mistaking them for quarters. Recently they introduced the "Sacegawea" dollar. It looked different but still was essentially the same size as a quarter. Two-dollar bills were re-introduced in my lifetime and were ridiculed because we have a saying, "As phony as a two-dollar bill". Nevertheless, I've seen them back in circulation recently.

It sounds like a variant of my two cents , which would have been much easier to find in a search. It's hard to tell if the writer was trying to be amusing by changing two to five , or if the idiom was simply mistyped. If you want an expert to explain the meaning in the context, you might start by showing the phrase in context. I have also seen 'my five cents'. It is just a variant. Perhaps this form is more common in non-english speaking countries?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. And a little Google is always a good learning habit. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Featured on Meta. The four most common coins are the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. They are each worth different amounts of money and have different physical traits you can use to tell them apart through touch.

The value of each coin is: A penny is worth 1 cent. A nickel is worth 5 cents. A dime is worth 10 cents. A quarter is worth 25 cents. How to tell coins apart without looking: Size from smallest to largest is dime, penny, nickel, and quarter. Nickels are the thickest of the 4 coins. Dimes are the thinnest of the 4 coins. Dimes and quarters have ridged edges.