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Penny payload: NASA Mars rover Curiosity carries coin for camera checkup - collectSPACE.com

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Penny payload: NASA Mars rover Curiosity carries coin for camera checkup
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February 7, 2012 – A penny in today's economy does not go very far, but that has not stopped NASA from making one 1¢ piece stretch all the way to another planet: Mars. The copper coin is attached to a smartphone-size plaque at the end of the robotic ...
Mars-bound NASA rover carries coin for camera checkupPhysOrg.com

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Publ.Date : Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:16:39 GMT

Gold Declines as Silver Gains Penny, Major US Mint Eagle Coins Rise - CoinNews.net

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Gold Declines as Silver Gains Penny, Major US Mint Eagle Coins Rise
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In other precious metals, silver prices for March delivery edged up a penny to $33.750 an ounce. Silver touched an intraday low of $32.985 and reached a high of $33.870. Platinum prices for April delivery dipped $2.10, or 0.1%, to $1629.80 an ounce, ...

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Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:34:48 GMT

The Probabilities of Pennies - Wired News

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The Probabilities of Pennies
Wired News
But how special is it to find a coin of a certain vintage? More generally, many coin collectors start out trying to collect pennies from every year within a given range, just like how many people try to collect quarters from every US state.


Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:19:11 GMT

Mint Tries to Make Cheaper Cent - NumisMaster.com

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Mint Tries to Make Cheaper Cent
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Love it or hate it, the cent costs more than a penny to produce – 2.41 cents to be precise – and that makes for a poor return on investment. So does the cent have a future as a circulating coin in the US? “Here's the official party line,” said US Mint ...

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Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:13:16 GMT

Penny Parade nets 190107 of them - Galesburg Register-Mail

Penny Parade nets 190107 of them
Galesburg Register-Mail
Galesburg's Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Lincoln biographer wrote an essay in 1909 that appeared in the Milwaukee Daily News about the newly introduced Lincoln penny. The poem, an ode to the penny being the coin of the common people, inspired the ...
Carl Sandburg Penny Parade Jan. 26 raises more than $1900Aledo Times Record

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Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:15 GMT

Bill to require steel pennies, nickels makes cents, says sponsor - Los Angeles Times

Bill to require steel pennies, nickels makes cents, says sponsor
Los Angeles Times
A penny-pinching member of Congress is taking aim at the cost of producing 1-cent coins. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) has introduced the Cents and Sensibility Act to require pennies to be made primarily from American steel.

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Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:08:16 GMT

The penny has dropped: let's scrap copper coins - The Guardian (blog)

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The penny has dropped: let's scrap copper coins
The Guardian (blog)
Here, where copper coins have been made of copper-plated steel since 1992, the situation is at least better than in the US where a cent coin costs a quarter more to produce than it's worth. But it still costs something to produce nearly 30bn penny ...

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Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:30:21 GMT

New Highland shop focuses on buying, selling coins - Hometownlife.com

New Highland shop focuses on buying, selling coins
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The store features a variety of coins in all price ranges, and the Munros enjoy spending time with children in hopes of hooking them on coin collecting. They show those younger customers a 1943 zinc penny and how it is not magnetic like most pennies.


Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:59:21 GMT

Coinstar changes - New York Post

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Coinstar changes
New York Post
With its popular kiosk rental business a hit among penny-pinching consumers, Coinstar — still known for its coin-counting machines — launched a two-prong entertainment push yesterday as it looks to take on video giants Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster.

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Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:44 GMT

Joe's Science Lab: Disappearing Coin - WETM-TV

Joe's Science Lab: Disappearing Coin
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Here is how you can use plain old tap water to make your money disappear, and no I'm not talking about by leaving the water running from your faucet to run up the water bill! 1. Place the penny onto your designated flat surface. 2.


Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:48:48 GMT

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