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A man who tried to pay a $100 bond in dirty money will spend a week in jail for contempt of court. A Scott County judge sent the man to jail on Thursday.
Talk about squeezing every penny at the gas pump. Denver police say clerks at a gas station had a run-in with a man who insisted on using $10 worth of pennies to prepay for his fuel on Thursday.
A Michigan school has a million thanks to give to a fourth-grader.
Twenty-nine New Jersey students punished with two-day detentions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon.
Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing. Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches.
It took Vicki Armstrong almost 19 years to save $550, which isn't much of an accomplishment — except that she did it one penny at a time.
Vicki Armstrong has been saving her pennies for almost 19 years and she was making plans this week to cash them in at a bank — all 55,000 of them.
One hundred million pennies for your thoughts on the latest display in Rockefeller Center. New York first lady Silda Wall Spitzer joined hundreds of public school children on Monday to unveil a mass of $1 million in pennies collected for charity. The display, called the Penny Harvest Field, includes an estimated 100 million pennies — plus a few nickels, dimes and quarters that slipped in by mistake.
Educators banking on penny driveTALLAHASSEE -- The plan was simple: Pile more than 2.6 million pennies on the steps of the Capitol for a rally by parents, teachers and other educators. Only that many pennies -- one to represent every student in the state of Florida -- weighs some 15,000 pounds.
Man Arrested After Attempting to Pay Traffic Fine With PenniesA Nutley, N.J. man is putting in his two cents about what he calls a lot of non-cents over a traffic ticket. He has been trying to pay his fine in pennies, but the town is demanding he change his way of paying.
Rare pocket change used for cigarettesLANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania state police say they would like to talk to the woman who bought a pack of cigarettes with a handful of rare coins.
I can't remember the last time I used pennies to pay for anything. If I need a penny, I can usually find one not far from the cash register in a little dish.
Are You Still Saving Pennies? Stop Wasting Your TimePennies are becoming worthless over the years. Read on to find out more.
Pennies are not peanutsMWANZA, Tanzania – None of the shopkeepers had change for a dollar, and I marveled, not for the first time, at how the gap between rich and poor plays out in real life.
Library raises $10,000, a penny at a timeThe Peter White Public Library's children's room has successfully completed its collection of a million pennies. (via American Libraries Direct)
Man tries to pay with pennies; police called : Store clerk refuses pennies in DenverVisitors to Denver beware! Leave your pennies at home!
Congress considering steel pennies and nickelsFurther evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents.
Penny Dreadful: The Tricky Business Of Costly CoinageSince the Mint currently manufactures more than seven billion pennies a year and "sells" them to the Federal Reserve at their face value, the Treasury incurs an annual penny deficit of about fifty million dollars—a condition known in the coin world as "negative seigniorag …
Penny Dreadful: Why do pennies persist?everal years ago, Walter Luhrman, a metallurgist in southern Ohio, discovered a copper deposit of tantalizing richness.
Metal more valuable than the coin; Costs 2 cent to make a penny, 10 cent to make a nickleThe saying goes, "See a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck." But these days, the penny itself isn't having much luck. Not only is there nothing you can buy with a penny, it's literally not worth the metal it's made of. Related Stories
Students Pardoned After Paying With PenniesThe school superintendent in Readington told parents he is rescinding after-school detentions given to 29 students who paid for their $2 lunches in pennies. Officials said the students were upset over their shortened lunch period.
Woman to Take 55,000 Pennies to the Bank SHREVEPORT, La. - Vicki Armstrong has been saving her pennies for almost 19 years and she was making plans this week to cash them in at a bank - all 55,000 of them
I'll be honest; I very often throw out pennies in the trash. Women, with their ubiquitous handbags, don't have any grasp on how irritating coins are to men like myself, armed only with a wallet. The worst offender of any unit of currency is the vile little penny.
83 Things You Can Do With a PennyMany people assume that the penny is no longer good for anything, but not according to members from the forums - there are still a lot of things that you can do with a penny. Here are 83 of them (Disclaimer: Some of these activities involve defacing pennies which may be illegal):
A Billion Pennies? Ten Billion? It Can Only Be The MegaPenny ProjectVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is.
Coin Shortage Could Turn Pennies to NickelsA potential shortage of coins in the United States could mean all those pennies in your piggy bank could be worth five times their current value soon, says an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Pennies: Five Cents EachA potential shortage of coins in the United States could mean all those pennies in your piggy bank could be worth five times their current value soon, says an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Mint bans melting pennies and nickels for profit he U.S. Mint has implemented a rule against melting down pennies and nickels which, at current metal prices, could be worth more as metal than as currency.
Kids' 1.5 million pennies stolen; city rallies to replace themThe children of Groton and Dunstable, Mass., had painstakingly collected and counted pennies for months - a shiny coin to represent each of the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust.
Be on the Lookout for Lucky PenniesYou may want to pay extra close attention to your loose change — some small coins now in circulation could be worth big bucks.
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