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(Yahoo)   If you think pennies are worthless, Walter Husak, who just auctioned of 301 antique pennies for $10.7 million, would like to have a word with you   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Merltech
2008-02-17 9:31:36 PM  
Only if the said penny has a high demand.
 
Delay
2008-02-17 9:31:46 PM  
Coin collectors are kinda dull.
 
ChoNeko
2008-02-17 9:31:52 PM  
You can have my two cents.
 
travvis
2008-02-17 9:33:13 PM  
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?
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2008-02-17 9:33:27 PM  
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.
 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache
2008-02-17 9:34:27 PM  
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?
 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache
2008-02-17 9:35:25 PM  
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
 
shgrmagnolia
2008-02-17 9:36:03 PM  
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......
 
Danger Avoid Death
2008-02-17 9:36:04 PM  
GoSurfing: A penny saved is a penny earned.

And it's still just a penny.
 
culebra
2008-02-17 9:36:51 PM  
A penny saved is a penny earned.

Also, could you get some athlete's foot cream for my face?
 
travvis
2008-02-17 9:37:42 PM  
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.
 
mrtron
2008-02-17 9:38:56 PM  
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!
 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark]
2008-02-17 9:39:25 PM  
the metal used to make pennies is valuable
 
James Atkins
2008-02-17 9:40:38 PM  
auctioned off?
 
shgrmagnolia
2008-02-17 9:41:18 PM  
GoSurfing sorry i have really low self esteem

low self esteem is kind of chic these days
 
MrSeabass
2008-02-17 9:42:56 PM  
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.
 
Major
2008-02-17 9:44:45 PM  
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"!
 
chemical_angel
2008-02-17 9:50:23 PM  
When the termination expression evaluates to false, the loop terminates.
 
sentient_being
2008-02-17 9:51:04 PM  
[image from aycu39.webshots.com too old to be available]

AND I SURE AS shiat DON'T SELL PENNIES ON SHABBOS!
 
phlegmmo [TotalFark]
2008-02-17 9:51:26 PM  
"Keep your hands off my Penny!"

fiftiesweb.comView Full Size


/extra points for old farkers that remember this
 
VeganCheesesteak!
2008-02-17 9:53:41 PM  
i15.photobucket.comView Full Size
 
Ow My Balls
2008-02-17 9:53:59 PM  
Love the picture of the 1794 penny!
 
undflickertail
2008-02-17 9:54:36 PM  
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
 
Hick
2008-02-17 9:54:41 PM  
This makes no cents. All the money for some stupid pennies, it's noncents.
 
WizardofToast
2008-02-17 9:56:01 PM  
[image from citypaper.net too old to be available]

Approves.
 
kid_charlemagne
2008-02-17 9:57:07 PM  
Coin collectors like 'em mint condition, with plenty of head and a nice bust to boot!
 
aerojockey [TotalFark]
2008-02-17 9:57:54 PM  
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?
 
jfarkinB
2008-02-17 9:59:17 PM  
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.
 
ultraholland
2008-02-17 10:00:06 PM  
culebra: A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

Cherry. Cherry! Mule...
 
kid_charlemagne
2008-02-17 10:00:46 PM  
1909-S V.D.B FTW!
 
jimmyjackfunk
2008-02-17 10:00:56 PM  
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"
 
TrentSteel68
2008-02-17 10:05:53 PM  
jfarkinB: Buy stocks.

You could always buy the wrong stocks.
 
Jeffrey.Rodriguez
2008-02-17 10:12:21 PM  
Well, if you take inflation into account, that's probably accurate.
 
mrtron
2008-02-17 10:13:15 PM  
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.
 
time2sow
2008-02-17 10:16:52 PM  
i'd like to think 10.7 million could have bought another 'f' for that headline.
 
richmassena23
2008-02-17 10:17:22 PM  
For those interested, here is the catalog
BTW, the US has never minted a penny.
 
jackandwater
2008-02-17 10:22:31 PM  
phlegmmo: "Keep your hands off my Penny!"

/extra points for old farkers that remember this


Sky King and his neice is named penny.
 
always 11h17m
2008-02-17 10:24:28 PM  
richmassena23: For those interested, here is the catalog
BTW, the US has never minted a penny.

Sweet... 1801 3 errors. I want.
 
SonOfSpam [BareFark]
2008-02-17 10:29:07 PM  
Keep the change.

/wait...
 
ultraholland
2008-02-17 10:45:01 PM  
[image from upload.wikimedia.org too old to be available]
 
Hollie Maea
2008-02-17 10:54:18 PM  
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.
 
CygnusDarius
2008-02-17 11:01:08 PM  
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.
 
Makh
2008-02-17 11:01:31 PM  
ultraholland I came here to make the same reference.

/And got me a new Rolex from the one penny that nice man gave me.
 
SpaceCactus
2008-02-17 11:16:14 PM  
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!!!
 
richmassena23
2008-02-17 11:29:53 PM  
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.
 
ajboucek
2008-02-17 11:38:22 PM  
I read that as penises and not pennies. I think there's something wrong with me
 
Millsey
2008-02-18 12:14:05 AM  
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.
 
Sword and Shield [TotalFark]
2008-02-18 12:28:10 AM  
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.
 
studebaker hoch
2008-02-18 12:37:21 AM  
Whoever said "A penny saved is a penny earned" did not have to pay income tax.
 
studebaker hoch
2008-02-18 12:53:27 AM  
The pennies mightier.
 
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