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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Zak, post: 23705, member: 824"]<i>From USA Today, 11/16/04, page 3A:</i></p><p><br /></p><p>A 78 year-old retired glass-factory supervisor will cash in what remains of his record-setting collection of <b>1,407,550 pennies </b> worth $14,075.50 accumulated over 34 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm</a></p><p> ***********</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to have gotten my hands on 1972, 1995 and other double die years. Could you imagine the pennies he had in 1939 when he bought his Schwinn? Even the 40,000 pennies he cashed in 1970 probably yielded some nice dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that cataloging and records is now being "eaten" by a Coinstar machine...you would think that he probably saved and knew about key dates?? I sure hope so because the article doesn't say anything about those he kept for himself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Zak, post: 23705, member: 824"][I]From USA Today, 11/16/04, page 3A:[/I] A 78 year-old retired glass-factory supervisor will cash in what remains of his record-setting collection of [B]1,407,550 pennies [/B] worth $14,075.50 accumulated over 34 years. [url]http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm[/url] *********** I would love to have gotten my hands on 1972, 1995 and other double die years. Could you imagine the pennies he had in 1939 when he bought his Schwinn? Even the 40,000 pennies he cashed in 1970 probably yielded some nice dates. All that cataloging and records is now being "eaten" by a Coinstar machine...you would think that he probably saved and knew about key dates?? I sure hope so because the article doesn't say anything about those he kept for himself.[/QUOTE]
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