1.3mil pennies in my pocket
Posted in Random by Derek at 12:00 pm
This post was published 4 years 5 months ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I always hated pennies. They accumulate in that coin jar on top of your drawer with no where to go. Occasionally I’ll grab a few to use during the day so I can pay for items ending in odd numbers. Edmond Knowles must have collected pennies from people who cared less for those dirty little coins.
Knowles, a service-station manager, stored the pennies in four 55-gallon and three 20-gallon oil barrels. They weighed more than 4 1/2 tons. [Knowles] said he started his collection in 1966 because he appreciated the value of a penny: “It takes pennies to make money. They’re worth something or they wouldn’t make them.”