A five-cent coin or five-cent piece is a small-value coin minted for various decimal currencies using the cent as their hundredth subdivision.
Examples include:
- the United States five-cent coin, better known as the US nickel
- the Canadian five-cent coin, better known as the Canadian nickel
- the Australian five-cent coin
- the New Zealand five-cent coin (withdrawn in 2006 due to low monetary value)
- the Hong Kong five-cent coin (withdrawn in 1989 due to low monetary value)
- the Singapore five-cent coin
- the Brunei five-cent coin
- the five-cent coin of the decimal Dutch guilder (Netherlands), also called stuiver (withdrawn in 2001 due to introduction of the euro)
- the 5 cent euro coin used in several European countries known as the eurozone
- the five-cent coin of the South African rand
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