Pennies With Purpose: Smart and Simple Ways to Use the Disappearing Coin
with the discontinuation of penny production, some brick-and-mortar businesses across the country have been unable to give back exact change because they lack sufficient pennies, if any at all.
The other day, I published a post on the end of the US penny. In that post, one of the things I was wondering was what would happen to the penny. Would it just disappear and be forgotten? No! On the contrary, it has become a sought-after item. Stores want you to dig through those couch cushions and find all the pennies you can. In fact, they make it worth your while if you bring them in. Some stores even offer you twice the value of the penny in store vouchers.
That’s not all, though. Collectors are looking for those rare gems too.Not to mention the trivia the penny brings with it. For example, did you know that it costs about 3.7 cents to make a penny?That’s one of the main reasons it’s being discontinued. Or, the fact that President Lincoln is the only “head” on a coin that faces right. Another favorite mentioned in the article above is that pennies land on “heads” about 80% of the time because Lincoln’s head protrudes so much from the face of the coin.
All of these cool things are going to make me miss the penny even more, I think.