It’s the only explanation for this bizzare article. According to this, Euro-using european countries, Britain and Canada don’t have pennies. Um. Yes we do, yes they do, we all have pennies, apart from euro-using-europe which has the 1 cent coin, which when we do, eventually, adopt the euro will almost certainly become called the penny.
Please could someone call planet NYT and ask them what colour the sky is on their world?
Actually it says we abolished our smallest coin. We did: the ha’penny. (half a pence)
Does it make me old to remember those? :-(