"Just some old junk I found in the attic, toss it in the trash compactor"
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I understand that. Used to work a grocery store cash register. One day, one or two of our penny rolls were loaded with wheat pennies and Indian pennies. I even got my one and only steel penny that day. Shame that they were probably stolen and hawked or sold in tough times.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    *hocked

    But yeah

    Although honestly it doesn't really make sense to use a collectible penny as currency these days, as 1¢ is worth so little as to be effectively insignificant now.

    In the past, though, I definitely did cash in old collected dollar and half-dollar coins because of my desire to eat.

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