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From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser)
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Subject: Re: where do all the pennies go?
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 12:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 12:33:00 1985
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> 
> 	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.