Only if the said penny has a high demand.

Coin collectors are kinda dull.

You can have my two cents.

If you were Jewish, and you were baking a German chocolate cake, would you maybe leave it in the oven just a little bit longer than normal?

Nice try subby but those are pennies most of us are unlikely to have. Call me back when they're talking about the crap I have in the jar on top of my dryer.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

travvis: If you were Jewish, and you were baking a German chocolate cake, would you maybe leave it in the oven just a little bit longer than normal?

What does this have to do with anything?

Gyrfalcon: Nice try subby but those are pennies most of us are unlikely to have. Call me back when they're talking about the crap I have in the jar on top of my dryer.

Also, THIS

travvis: If you were Jewish, and you were baking a German chocolate cake, would you maybe leave it in the oven just a little bit longer than normal?

whaaaatt......

GoSurfing: A penny saved is a penny earned.

And it's still just a penny.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Also, could you get some athlete's foot cream for my face?

travvis: If you were Jewish, and you were baking a German chocolate cake, would you maybe leave it in the oven just a little bit longer than normal?

What does this have to do with anything?

Exactly.

Also, Mr. Walter Husak wants to have a word with me because they are my ass-pennies. He wants me to be his ass penny goose.

/sorry I have really low self esteem.

If I was selling 301 antique pennies, they would most certainly become ass pennies before transfer of ownership.

Haha! You just paid 10 mil for asspennies!

the metal used to make pennies is valuable

auctioned off?

GoSurfing sorry i have really low self esteem

low self esteem is kind of chic these days

Gyrfalcon: Nice try subby but those are pennies most of us are unlikely to have. Call me back when they're talking about the crap I have in the jar on top of my dryer.

Good thing I'm not one of those "most of us" people. I started my collecting (numismating, lolol) when I found a very exceptional 1984 double die penny in some Wal-Mart change. That, along with some Morgans and whatnot have made me a very nice sum to fall back on if I choose to sell. Not to sound like a late-night Infomercial, but my collecting and trading got me a %300 or so return on my investments.

Don't have any gold though. Gold is for pussies.

I'm getting a kick out of these replies because I've just spent a penny in the bathroom.

What the fu--

Oh wait.. P-E-N-N-I-E-S.
Jesus god, did I ever parse that wrong.

/today's letter is "joint"!

When the termination expression evaluates to false, the loop terminates.

"Keep your hands off my Penny!"



/extra points for old farkers that remember this

Love the picture of the 1794 penny!

The oldest penny I ever found was in my spare change from the supermarket. A pretty smooth 1929 wheat penny.

/still have it
//do not plan on getting rid of it

This makes no cents. All the money for some stupid pennies, it's noncents.

Approves.

Coin collectors like 'em mint condition, with plenty of head and a nice bust to boot!

MrSeabass 2008-02-17 09:42:56 PM

I started my collecting (numismating, lolol) when I found a very exceptional 1984 double die penny in some Wal-Mart change. That, along with some Morgans and whatnot have made me a very nice sum to fall back on if I choose to sell. Not to sound like a late-night Infomercial, but my collecting and trading got me a %300 or so return on my investments.

So a double-struck penny is worth three cents?

Step 1: get coin (or toy or anything else) that's made in very limited quantities
Step 2: wait 200 years
Step 3: profit!

If a penny is worth $300K after 200 years, that works out to about 9% per year. Buy stocks.

culebra: A penny saved is a penny earned.

Also, could you get some athlete's foot cream for my face?

Cherry. Cherry! Mule...

1909-S V.D.B FTW!

went to the post office and used their stamp machine and the change i got had a nickel in it. didn't really pay attention until i got back to the car and seen it was a buffalo nickel. checked and I think they were minted between 1913-28. but there is only one that is extremely rare and that is the one where somebody at the mint forgot to take off the 1917 die and it has a double cast of 1917-1918. Mine is pretty much worthless. So worn out that the date is gone and there is no mint mark on the back.

/second rarest buffalo nickel is the "three legged buffalo"

jfarkinB: Buy stocks.

You could always buy the wrong stocks.

Well, if you take inflation into account, that's probably accurate.

TrentSteel68: You could always buy the wrong stocks.

Ya, and beating the market is almost impossible, so I would put most of my money (75%) in index funds, and then try to make some smart plays outside of that. And of course, this doesn't factor in diversifying in other instruments.

i'd like to think 10.7 million could have bought another 'f' for that headline.

For those interested, here is the catalog
BTW, the US has never minted a penny.

phlegmmo: "Keep your hands off my Penny!"



/extra points for old farkers that remember this


Sky King and his neice is named penny.

Keep the change.

/wait...

richmassena23: BTW, the US has never minted a penny.

Guess what? The US Cent is known in vernacular as a penny. Nearly everyone knows that "penny" isn't the official name, but almost no one cares.

I have a small collection of silver pesos with me.

One always imagines that silver, gold and copper are pretty and very shiny. No one really tells you that the more pure the metal is, the duller it gets.

ultraholland I came here to make the same reference.

/And got me a new Rolex from the one penny that nice man gave me.

Makh: ultraholland I came here to make the same reference.

/And got me a new Rolex from the one penny that nice man gave me.

I came here to do the same as well. Good on you ultraholland.

/thanks mishhhter!!!

Hollie Maea:Guess what? The US Cent is known in vernacular as a penny. Nearly everyone knows that "penny" isn't the official name, but almost no one cares.

I was trolling for "yes it has." and got "who cares?" instead.

A fat lot of fun you are.

I read that as penises and not pennies. I think there's something wrong with me

Look at this, Doctor Jones. A common pocket watch. It's worthless... ten dollars from any vendor at the market, but if you put it in the ground for a thousand years it becomes priceless.

Wonder if it was part of the old Garrett collection- that was an impressive set.

Coins can be pretty interesting, and quite profitable if done right. I collect half dollars, and every week I'll get a couple rolls of halves when I deposit my paycheck. Check for silver, spend the rest. So far I'm up over 140 of them, just counting the 90% silver ones.

As silver value alone, that's a shade under a thousand bucks in silver. As coins, a bit more, say twelve hundred.

Cost to me? Fifty cents each. 1300% profit isn't bad.