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Last night when I got home I had a message on my phone answering machine from a local bank when once in a while I dump. The bank called and asked if I have any pennies that I could bring in. For some reason then needed pennies. I have stopped doing pennies like most because I feel at this time they are not worth spending time on. I called back and said that maybe by the end of the week I got have some and they said bring them in when I get some. Looks like I going tomorrow a get some to sort because I have a bank that wants them. The last time a bank want pennies for me was in the last 60's and they were paying $1.15 per dollar back then.

That's awesome!

And now some people have a hard time getting $1.15 per dollar of COPPER pennies. My how times change!

Back then all the pennies were copper.

dakota1955 wrote:Back then all the pennies were copper.

But that would be like paying $1.15 per 100 zinc pennies now. The reason they were doing this was almost certainly due to the coin shortage back then.