There's a man who lives over by Lubbock who has been saving pennies since 1952 and finally cashed them in. You'll never guess how much cash he got for this lifetime of pennies.
Even stacked together in a jar, all those pennies you have are fairly worthless. However, they may soon become collectors’ items.
Canada, our neighbor to the North, has just eliminated the penny in their latest federal budget, following the example of nations like Australia and New Zealand. The Canadian national mint will stop producing the one-cent coin over the next six months, and businesses ha