On 10/30/2016 11:48 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 10/30/2016 11:32 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 11:26:36 AM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> That's a lot of pennies! Anyone else remember the Treasury paying a
>>> premium for people to turn in their hoarded pennies? I'm thinking
>>> late 70s.
>>
>> In 1982 they switched from brass to copper-plated zinc. It's possible
>> that the Treasury tried to get people to cough up their brass pennies
>> before they had to resort to zinc.
>
> That is most probably the case. It was too expensive to make
> pennies and people across the nation had jars of them sitting
> around.
>
> nancy
>
I still have a bunch of pennies. My mother used to say "get out the
coin jar" and we'd sit and roll coins while watching TV. Mostly
pennies. I'm too lazy to bother now. The bank and local stores don't
have separating/counting machines. Oh well. They still spend if need be.

Jill