Pity the poor parking lot penny.
291fifth
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Road rash, dirt, corrosion and not even suitable for a Coinstar machine. Doomed to wait in the reject slot until a coin collector comes along and scoops him up and then tosses him into his junk box along with washers, foreign coins and Chuck-E-Cheese tokens.
All glory is fleeting.
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I picked four (4) of them up off the ground like new at the Quick Chek. People snicker, I loudly said; It's disrespectful to the country. Might as well use them if the USA is going to waste money stamping them out.
Look at it this way. It might your sole source for tax free income!
And if no one picks up the "poor little penny, it won't suffer for long. The zinc desolves really fast and before long it's gone without a trace.
For tax free income, just do what the rich do. I'm not up to date on the latest techniques but some older, now shut down, techniques include Accelerated Charitable Remainder Trusts and USVI residency. You would have gotten a lot more than a few pennies using those methods.
Quick Chek is a huge source of parking lot money compared to other parking lots. I don't know why that is. I usually get at least 20¢ on every trip.
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Despite greed, a poor man is still generous enough to toss pennies in a fountain or sewer.
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I always pick up the cents I see in parking lots... wife gets upset, says 'Leave them for the kids'...I said, 'It is the kids that throw them away.'.....Cheers, RickO
Sad but true.
I always pick up free money.
I wouldn't pity the 'poor parking lot penny'. I recall, several years ago, there was an exhibit at an ANA Summer Convention (World's Fair of Money), consisting only of coins picked up by the exhibitor while on daily walks. There were literally thousands of coins, mostly in horrible condition, which others were either too proud or too lazy to bend over and pick up. The coins were piled up in a sort of loose pyramid, and included most denominations typically seen in circulation, plus a few pieces of currency. The exhibit was entitled "Road Kill", and actually won the 'Peoples' Choice Award'. As I recall, they totaled an amount into four figures.
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That is so good it is like beautiful profound poetry (for coin nerds), maybe could make multiple haikus or even a limerick.
Let's see it in poem format:
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Pity the poor parking lot penny
by 291fifth
Road rash, dirt, corrosion
and not even suitable
for a Coinstar machine.
Doomed to wait in the reject slot
until a coin collector comes along
And scoops him up and then
tosses him into his junk box
along with washers, foreign coins
and Chuck-E-Cheese tokens.
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"To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
The coin that got me started collecting was a parking lot find (at a Chinese restaurant of all places). It was a 1953 S wheat cent that might have made AG-3 on a good day. I picked it up thinking it was just a typical penny, but turning it over later, I saw the big words ONE CENT where the Lincoln Memorial (and/or trolley car) should have been. When I noticed the date, I was amazed! It was the oldest coin I had ever seen! The next day my mom picked up a Red Book, and some Whitman folders, and I set off exploring what remains my favorite hobby.
Back in my metal detecting days, I accumulated thousands of pennies that were too dirty to spend, and not valuable enough to clean. I decided to bury them in a random spot overlooking a creek in an old northeastern town. I hope some young detectorist digs them up in the year 2475 and it makes their day.