Inevitable but sad. I am old enough that I can recall when penny candy still had meaning. Inflation debases everything over time.
Not Worth a Penny
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“The rarest penny is the 1943-D Lincoln Bronze Wheat Penny, with only one known to exist, and it has sold for as much as $1.7 million at auction.”
There’s still time. Has to be another, somewhere…
Back in my grade school days, I used to have several of those blue collection books for pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. It was great fun trying to fill the little compartments with coins from each year and each different US Mint. Now, I don’t even carry coins any more, much less collect them. I remember that one of the pennies from 1943 was made of steel instead of copper, because of war materiel needs. Never knew there was a bronze version, too.
Yup. Any copper 1943 Pennies are valuable too.
Not a lot of time left to find one.
“The 1943 copper penny is a rare mint error coin created when leftover copper planchets were accidentally used to strike pennies during World War II, when the U.S. Mint was supposed to produce steel cents. Only about 40 genuine examples are known to exist, making them highly sought after by collectors.“
So how do we pay the sales tax on items w/o pennied?
There goes “A penny for your thoughts”.
Penny loafers…are they in vogue again? Pennies from Heaven.
As for a sales tax, I’m guessing the tax will be rounded up to nickel or dime. Food Lion had been giving customers a chance to round up the sales slip to the dollar. The money went to charity. Not sure which. Also Washington Gas gives the option for the rounded up money to go to the Fuel Fund.
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