He collected thirty-seven 5-gallon buckets of pennies, each holding around 30,000 pennies. It took several months to cash them all in, netting him $10,060. Story
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REEDSVILLE, Pa. - After four decades of pinching pennies, a million in all, A Mifflin County man decided that it was time to cash in his collection.
It took several months of bank visits to bring in 37 buckets of pennies to be cashed but by the end, Lynn Wagner ended up with $10,060.
"I thought that it'd be interesting to have a million of these so I thought that I'd try," he said.
Wagner, 53, collected one million pennies in August. The pennies were stacked along a wall in Wagner's garage in 4 1/2-gallon buckets.
"I can get 30,000 of them in one bucket if I shake it so that they settle to the bottom," he said. "That's $52 per gallon."
Along with saving his own pennies, he also received contributions as word of his collection spread.
Friends and family began passing along a year's worth of pennies at Christmas. A waitress at the Honey Creek Inn, where Wagner and his wife Brenda eat breakfast every Saturday, saved pennies for him that customers left.
"I had people whom I didn't even know calling me. They'd say that a friend or brother had told them about this guy who collected pennies and asked if I wanted a jar of pennies they'd collected," Wagner said.
"Some people think that pennies don't add up to anything, but this is proof that they do," Brenda Wagner said.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
If you looked at each one for thirty seconds, how long would it take you to grade them all? Giving 10 minute bathroom breaks every hour, one hour meal breaks every four hours, and an eight hour work day with weekends off. Twelve holidays a year too.
" If you looked at each one for thirty seconds, how long would it take you to grade them all? Giving 10 minute bathroom breaks every hour, one hour meal breaks every four hours, and an eight hour work day with weekends off. Twelve holidays a year too."
5 years, 3 weeks, 2 days, and 4 hours exactly.
And then you check yourself into an insane asylum!
Mr Eureka: Too late....he has decided to make a painting that contains $15,000 in face value of cents. No kidding.....he said so himself. He wanted to know if I wanted to buy such a painting.
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Tue Dec 2, 2:16 PM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!
REEDSVILLE, Pa. - After four decades of pinching pennies, a million in all, A Mifflin County man decided that it was time to cash in his collection.
It took several months of bank visits to bring in 37 buckets of pennies to be cashed but by the end, Lynn Wagner ended up with $10,060.
"I thought that it'd be interesting to have a million of these so I thought that I'd try," he said.
Wagner, 53, collected one million pennies in August. The pennies were stacked along a wall in Wagner's garage in 4 1/2-gallon buckets.
"I can get 30,000 of them in one bucket if I shake it so that they settle to the bottom," he said. "That's $52 per gallon."
Along with saving his own pennies, he also received contributions as word of his collection spread.
Friends and family began passing along a year's worth of pennies at Christmas. A waitress at the Honey Creek Inn, where Wagner and his wife Brenda eat breakfast every Saturday, saved pennies for him that customers left.
"I had people whom I didn't even know calling me. They'd say that a friend or brother had told them about this guy who collected pennies and asked if I wanted a jar of pennies they'd collected," Wagner said.
"Some people think that pennies don't add up to anything, but this is proof that they do," Brenda Wagner said.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
Russ, NCNE
Check out a Vanguard Roth IRA.
5 years, 3 weeks, 2 days, and 4 hours exactly.
And then you check yourself into an insane asylum!
Tom
Shhhhhhh!!! Don't give STEWARTBLAY any ideas!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.