February 04, 2013, The Canadian Royal Mint stopped the production of the 1 cent penny, the same year I was taught the hand sign in Sign Language. Wearing an anniversary penny celebrating the coin’s history, a young girl named Penny shows the ASL hand sign for Cents and Penny. Touch the Index finger to the right side of the forehead, then pull the finger out and down, briefly holding it in the air. For higher denominations, the shape of the hand changes with its number equivalent (2¢ 23¢ 99¢, etc.) By using her index finger, also the hand sign for one, Penny is signing 1 cent, which now in Canada can only be paid digitally.
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For the website, I added examples of higher denominations with the ASL hand signs for two bits, 25¢.
