5/27/2023 0 Comments Penny in my pocket![]() And I think I had to feed the machine quarters for the pleasure of ruining that penny. I gave a couple of pennies to my grandsons to do that a few years ago. Some people damage them on purpose in machines made for just that purpose. ![]() Sure, some coins are damaged and taken out of circulation. Those statistics make you wonder why the Mint continues to produce 5-16 billion pennies every year. If you’re like me, when you start talking millions and billions, those numbers are too big to properly imagine. That’s a lot of pennies and if you were to gather them all together they would weigh more than 716 million pounds. ![]() Do you have a penny in your pocket? Odds are, you have a jar or dish full of pennies somewhere in your house that you don’t bother to count.Īccording to a news article I came across on the internet, there are approximately 130 billion pennies currently in circulation or hiding out in those piggy banks at your house. ![]()
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