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I pick up pennies too. I'm not sure how much I've actually picked up but it was more than I woke up with. Just like tax returns. If they were cut by 0.0001% that's 0.0001% more that I get to keep.
Also save nickles and dimes. Some day we just may cash them in but for now they sit rolled up in a box.
The military has been doing the same thing at commissaries and exchanges overseas for years. It cost too much to ship the pennies over so they have been rounding up and down; doesn't seem to have caused much of a problem.
Everyone can make their own pennies.
Draw circles on pieces of paper. Write "1¢" on the front of the cicle. On the back write: "This note is legal tender for all debts, private and public." Add in: "This note is redeemable for squat, backed by the full faith and credit of nothing."
Write your name and address on the back. When people knock on your door to redeem them, get a piece of paper out and write: "My reserve note."
Wait a minute. This is already done. Never mind...
I roll ALL change. I save each coin in a box/bag/jar just for that coin (saves a lot of sorting later) and when I have a substantial amount, out come the rolls in front of the TV. The 'cashed in' bills go into my 'mad money' stash and I have purchased (over the years) 2 computer tables, a laptop computer and various 'toys' for MY toy room (old comic books and stuff from eBay I just HAD to have...).
I also have saved (in coin tubes) wheat pennies, 1 penny a year from each year since my husband was born, a quarter a year since they switched from silver (some day I plan to buy back to 1959), various odds and ends, and -of course- a book, a map, and a set of tubes just for the 'state' quarters.
We also buy 'double struck proof sets' straight from the mint. These are BEAUTIFUL... We give these as gifts as well (birth year for family babbies, grad year for grads, etc...).
We're a bit on the pack rat side... but I love my toys.
The penny should be abandoned as well as the dollar bill. Replace the latter with the dollar coins and we'll all be set for a couple of decades more. Then we can target the nickel! :)
I got plenty of pennies. I wouldn't mind a few dollars.
If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.
I read the legislation prohibiting the melting of coin or specifically 1c coins was rescinded after the switch to zinc in 1982. And then, there are those crafty folks who mutilate pennies with the state-fair machine (elongated pennies) To claim this manna from heaven tho, one will need something like 155 or so to make a pound, and then somehow transport this to the nearest smelter. Scrap dealers or local legislation are setup to discourage folks from bringing in manhole covers or transformers for $$$. One bad sideline is that a lot of folks get zapped to death trying to ripoff CU.
I prefer to look at it more as a test of one's suitability for survival and the passing on of genes.
I know people doing that now.
Yeah, but you live up in DHS, which we all know is a whole 'nother world!
I recognize that hand, and ditto the pose...it's Jerry Hansen, your former City Manager, getting his palm greased...
Sorry, you are wrong. It is true. The price of zinc has increased so much that the bullion value of the penny is now worth more than 1¢.
"I use the new gold dollar whenever I can get them but the only place that I know of that uses them regularly is the change from a post office stamp machines."
I just refuse to accept them.
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