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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: where do all the pennies go?
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 18:13:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 18:13:44 1985
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> > 
> > 	Have you ever wondered where all of the pennies go to?  There
> > must have been billions of pennies produced in the last hundred years or
> > so.  I guess that a few get melted down, and some get run over by trains,
> > but how many pennies have you seen from 1952 lately?
> 
> You don't see any pennies from before 1959 because collectors have scarfed
> them up.  
> 
> Still, the questions remains...it's been a long time since 1959...where
> do those pennies go?  My theory is that they are collected by pack rats
> and various species of birds which like shiny objects.

  Surely you know the answer to this.  Who can forget the classic folk song,
lamenting lost coinage:

                     "Where have all the pennies gone?
                      Long time passing
                      Where have all the pennies gone?
                      Long time ago
                      Where have all the pennies gone?
                      Gone to Cleveland, every one
                      When will they ever learn?
                      When will they ever learn?

                     "Where have all the Clevelands gone? ..."
--Mr. Blore the DJ who would not die, not even if you paid him
-- ...udenva!showard