Penny
March 6, 2010 | 2009
My son will be studying money at school again, and he’s supposed to bring four quarters, 10 dimes, 10 nickels and 25 pennies Monday. Wouldn’t you know it? I just took in a huge bag of coins to the bank the other day. The kids bought me a Wii remote for Valentine’s Day (totally their idea, I swear) and paid for it themselves. Only thing is, we bought it online, so I took their change and deposited it into their savings accounts.
So here I am fishing around the house and in the cars for all the change I can find, and I ran across this new penny. At first I thought it was Canadian or something. But, no. It’s ours. And I wondered when the heck they started doing weird stuff with pennies.
Turns out: last year, after almost 50 years of the same thing on the back of a penny. The back of the penny was redesigned to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. This one is known as the “Indiana Penny” because it shows him “reading while taking a break from rail splitting” in Indiana.
Ah well. Learn something new every day.
Anyone have nickels? I’m still four short.
March 6th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Great. Now I’m gonna have to pay more attention to pennies.
Good luck with those nickels!
March 6th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
You know they messed around with nickels a couple of years ago too, right? http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/nickel/index.cfm?action=returnToMonticello
March 7th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I’m not usually a fan of mucking around with the coins (see my quarter find on FB)but I kinda like this one. Now, we’ll be looking for them :-) The boys are in a money unit, too, and playing all sorts of fun games.