Here's ome I always liked - the reverse on the old Barber 10-25-50c pieces.
Posted on 06/19/2010 2:22:58 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG
I pick-up pennies when I find them. All found money is donated to our church missions.
“And, I pick up pennies from the ground. Anyone who does not is an elitist.”
LOL
I’m an elitist?
And most I know are too I guess.
Who thunk it!
Seriously, it’s beyond any practical value.
Sure, run around picking up pennies and in a year you can buy a donut and coffee. Not Starbucks.
I’ll throw some out there for you little people. ;)
I’ve got a copper-plated 1943 steel penny. Worth at least a cent.
When I was a kid I had all kinds of old coins in those blue folders. I wanted a stupid guinea pig so I used the coins to buy one. Thing was nasty and loved to squeal and bite. I was happy when it died. Wish I still had the coins. Not worth all that much, but still...
A penny is the smallest value of money. It is not worthless unless you cannot count. And apparently you cannot.
Too good to bend down to pick up a penny? You’re too full of yourself.
I make good money and have two homes and a Porsche Cayman. No, I’m not buying a Dunkin Donut, not even buying a Starbucks coffee. I’m buying something far more expensive.
The difference is that i know the value of money, you do not.
Here's ome I always liked - the reverse on the old Barber 10-25-50c pieces.
Back in the 70s I talked with a guy who ran a gas station during the Depression. He showed me a handful of badly worn coins dating back to the 1870s that he said people used to pay for their gas. Or, it could be dumb robbers spending a stolen collection as common money. Years ago we had a detective talk to our coin club. Someone said they found a near-mint Standing Liberty quarter in circulation and he posited that scenario, which made sense.
He also suggested to people who saved rolls of coins to scratch your name/initials on a junk coin and insert it into the roll. If they are ever stolen and they catch the thief who claims they are his, you can ask him how your ID got on his coins.
It is a simple reminder of who we are as Americans by simply reading our money.Instant civics lesson.
I blame the Coin Star machines. People just throw their change in a jar. When the jar gets full they run to the grocery store and pour the coins into the machine without looking at them. The coins go to the bank counting machine and get rolled up and re-issued. No one even looks at the coins. A few months ago I got a silver quarter in change from the Piggly Wiggly. Before that I got a liberty head "V" nickle in change. As someone said earlier, wheat pennies are become common in change.
Pick it up.
All the day,
You'll have good luck."
The heads-up finds are luckier, for some reason.
It still has all three of Dennis Prager’s American Trinity:
In God We Trust, E Pluribus Unum, and Liberty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn4IH3yng4k
As a kid during WW2 I remember some pennies were zinc without the copper plating. A lot of copper and pure silver was used in calutrons which helped to seperate U235 from U238
I found one a 1943 steel (zinc-plated) penny in my change a few years ago!
If you have a REAL copper 1943 penny, then yes. I’d say that’s worth at least a cent. :)
It’s simply not logical. The math is all I need to know.
The amount is so massively tiny it takes *thousands* of them to amount to what I earn in a single hour at work.
If you had a parking lot full of pennies.
If it takes five seconds to pick one up.
That $7.20 an hour for your efforts. Minimum wage.
Assuming you want to spend an hour picking up 720 freekin’ pennies! LOL
How many does one find typically find to even pick up in a year? A few hundred?
Two or three bucks.
Better to have your head up looking for traffic or someone up to no good then buggering around on the ground looking for less then chump change.
This will be one of the few changes to our money that doesn’t tick me off. At least they’re not adding pastel easter colors in an effort to “gay it up” Euro-style.
Whoeveryouare ...
I assure you I am not picking up pennies for a living. I am blessed with a great career.
If you are too snobby to pick up a penny, I feel sorry for you.
No one is “buggering around” in this country. I think you must mean a Euro.
Thanks for the link to the designs. There were too many of the US Capitol building — the root of all of our problems today. I like the retro designs reminiscent of the late 19th century which was the peak of beautiful design.
Before this 1960 soda pop was 10 cents.
The price was 6¢. I remember them adding 1¢ coin boxes onto the 5¢ vending machines, in the end it was easier to just change the boxes to accept 10¢.
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