Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 GARFIELD 20/11/84; site garfield.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!garfield!lionel From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: where do all the pennies go? Message-ID: <3468@garfield.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 12:33:00 EDT Article-I.D.: garfield.3468 Posted: Fri Aug 23 12:33:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:41:17 EDT References: <3467@garfield.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's Lines: 20 [ barf gag ] > > Have you ever wondered where all of the pennies go to? > ... > Anybody else have any theories? Maybe someone could look up some > numbers on penny production so we have a better idea of the problem. > > Jeff Sparkes I read in 1981 that it cost the Canadian Government $0.036 to mint one penny! I can't imagine what it costs now. More than a nickel? I always pick up pennies when I see them discarded, because I know that they will need to replaced. I have saved at least a dollar for the government during the past few years. Addendum: In high school, a friend got a reputation as a miser (he was) and some jerks spend the year throwing their pennies near him. He dutifully picked them up, and at the end of the year came to show them his bag of $40.00 of their pennies. The next day he showed them the two ounces ... that he bought with it.