NOT disgusting.

Penny saved is a penny earned, suckers.

Penny found, well, that is another matter entirely...

;)

If you're strangely fascinated by this, let me steer you to Your new nerdish hobby (new window)

Penny is found.

*smooches*

That has to be the most useless farking graph I have ever laid eyes on.

/asspennies!

the one advantage of working in the food service industry was that I could appropriate unusual coins for my own use as long as I substituted them for coins of equivalent value and was not caught on camera.

/I have to relish the irony of me saying this as I am not one to see a glass half full very often.

Did you know that before a penny is released into circulation by the US Mint, it is stuck up someone's ass?

And here I thought the article was going to be about a burger king menu

zzz

highwayrun: If you're strangely fascinated by this, let me steer you to Your new nerdish hobby (new window)

CSB time...

I actually got the same Where's George dollar twice in 5 months. Went from Hendersonville TN all the way up to Kentucky, and then back again.

Nope. People take older pennies out of circulation. I use the pure (well, mostly pure) copper ones as washers and throw the more modern zinc ones into the street. Unless I am making a parkerizing solution, that is. Then I cut them up to dissolve. But I digress....

ASS PENNIES!!!!

A penny album? And I thought Bert collecting bottle caps was gay...

I'm still trying to find a damn New Mexican quarter.

vodka: I'm still trying to find a damn New Mexican quarter.



Isn't that:




+



?

Or is that a West Virginia quarter?

/See a penny, pick it up.

Dat Asspenny?

While standing in lines at various stores, the Mrs. and I have accumulated nearly $150 in pennies in just the last couple years. Fark it, I'm just standing there waiting, I might as well pick the damn thing up.

/and it ain't much, but those pennies are accumulating interest, all free of course
//will be good for the kids some day

Cool story time...

When I was a kid in the late 70's - maybe 9 or 10, I collected coins - just looking through people's change for the occasional wheat penny or silver dime/quarter. My Dad used to empty the vending machines at his work and bring home the big leather bags filled with quarters, dimes, and nickels for me to pour over, looking for something good.

On my birthday one year, they "spiked" the vending machine bags with five old expensive coins that they bought for me at a coin shop - a Flying Eagle penny from 1858, for example. Imagine my surprise as I found all of those coins in there!

I read recently about a small town in Minnesota doing that very thing...

I throw pennies in the trash sometimes, or just ditch them somewhere. they piss me off

Question: how do pennies get out of circulation? Do they all just find their way to the banks eventually and then get sent back to the mint?

As a coin collector, I'm really getting a kick...

Sadly, TFA is missing the point of filling the book - you also want to get one from each mint as well.

So just 800 or so pennies won't be enough to get the job done - these days more like 80,000.

Especially since they mint several bazillion pennies every year, diluting the pool for trying to find older pennies.

Don't forget that if you get the pennies from Bank of America, they are most likely nice and minty fresh - each roll weighing 125 grams for your pleasure...

/Buying buckets of pennies in the Puget Sound
//eip
///1909-S VDB slashies!

Canton: /See a penny, pick it up.

Thank you.

/not from Wonderfalls
//or Canada

highwayrun: If you're strangely fascinated by this, let me steer you to Your new nerdish hobby (new window)

Pfft, like my wife lets me have entire dollar bills in my wallet.

Hector Remarkable: Did you know that before a penny is released into circulation by the US Mint, it is stuck up someone's ass?

You're doing a heckuva job there, Brownie.

In December of 2011, I found in my change, a 1909, a 1910 and a 1919 Lincoln cent. All are well worn, What are the odds? Apparently 100%.

no?

Mad Canadian: As a coin collector, I'm really getting a kick...

Sadly, TFA is missing the point of filling the book - you also want to get one from each mint as well.

So just 800 or so pennies won't be enough to get the job done - these days more like 80,000.

Especially since they mint several bazillion pennies every year, diluting the pool for trying to find older pennies.

Don't forget that if you get the pennies from Bank of America, they are most likely nice and minty fresh - each roll weighing 125 grams for your pleasure...

/Buying buckets of pennies in the Puget Sound
//eip
///1909-S VDB slashies!

I'm with ya, Mad Canadian!

My roll searches give me copper pennies about 20% of the time, wheat pennies about 0.015% of the time, and I've only ever found one Indian head penny.

I still need the 1909-S VDB and the 1914-D for my Lincoln set.

volcs0: Cool story time...

When I was a kid in the late 70's - maybe 9 or 10, I collected coins - just looking through people's change for the occasional wheat penny or silver dime/quarter. My Dad used to empty the vending machines at his work and bring home the big leather bags filled with quarters, dimes, and nickels for me to pour over, looking for something good.

On my birthday one year, they "spiked" the vending machine bags with five old expensive coins that they bought for me at a coin shop - a Flying Eagle penny from 1858, for example. Imagine my surprise as I found all of those coins in there!

Yes, that was a cool story.

hestheone: Nope. People take older pennies out of circulation.

You mean, just like the article noted?