U.S. Currency (Sense & Change)

Advocate

Is it coincidence that America's lowest value of currency is called cents?

It is another coincidence that a quantity of cents is also called change?

Terrapin Station

Is it a coincidence? No.

Here's why a penny is considered one cent:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cent

BC

It is another coincidence that a quantity of cents is also called change? — Advocate

It's about "exchange".

coins as opposed to paper currency: a handful of loose change.
• money given in exchange for the same amount in larger denominations.
• money returned to someone as the balance of the amount paid for something: "I watched him pocket the change."

Advocate

↪Terrapin Station

It's about "exchange". — Bitter Crank

Thanks for the info

Nils Loc

Sounds like a conspiracy theory is in the wings.

I'm poor because I have no sense (cents).

I can't change because I have no cents (sense).

Advocate

↪Nils Loc

Sounds like you're catching on to what I find "co-incidental"

Advocate

I can't change because I have no cents (sense). — Nils Loc

I can't give change because I have no cents (sense).

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