Posted on 04/01/2021 6:50:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Andreas Flaten’s former employer dumped at least 90,000 pennies on his driveway last month as a form of final payment for his work at an auto shop, he said.
When Bellevue, Washington-based Coinstar heard about his predicament, they decided that change was needed.
They picked up Flaten’s coins on Thursday and rounded up the amount to give him a $1,000 check.
They also made donations to two charities of Flaten’s choosing: two animal shelters.
Flaten said his former employer — A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City — owed him $915 after he left his job there in November.
He finally got his pay earlier this month in the form of thousands of oil- or grease-covered pennies dumped at the end of his driveway...
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Zinc pennies have been the norm for decades. Most of the copper ones have been pulled from circulation.
The pennies they make nowadays, which are mostly zinc, are easily destroyed. Even a little salt will corrode them.
My cousin lived in a railroad town. Of course we put pennies on the tracks. They’d get flattened out pretty nicely (this was back when pennies were made from copper. They’d be warm after being flattened.
I still find the copper pennies, although the zinc ones outnumber the copper cents.
I save pennies dated 1981 or earlier.
In 1982 is when the changeover started.
Unfortunately, modern one cent coins have only a thin cladding of copper.
My daughter worked at a Domino’s a few years ago. One night some derelict came in and tried to pay for his pizza with a bag of weed. When the cops arrived, they checked and it was just dried oregano.
Copper coated steel, not zinc.
I had a guy try to tip me with a pack of cigarettes one time. Scratch tickets are a surprisingly popular tip item. Sometimes they’re scratched, and you can see it’s worth $3, sometimes they’re not scratched.
I used to do that as a kid when we were at the lake. There was a rail line between the cabin and the lake, so when we went boating we would put a coin on the tracks. The train would roll through, and then we had a hunt for the flattened coin/coins.
Harmless, cheap fun.
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