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US penny costs 4 cents to make. But for some souvenir sellers, it's a living
New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982-73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted. They were replaced by ...
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The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it’s a living
They were replaced by coins of mostly zinc thinly coated with copper. The solid copper old ones were more pliable and easier to stamp, making them hot items for kids at funfairs. “They’ll ...
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The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it’s a living
New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted. They were replaced by coins of mostly zinc thinly coated with copper. The solid copper old ...
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Making change: How pennies became a living for one sector of souvenir sellers
“They’ll clean ’em so when they elongate the dino or shark of the printed coin it maintains a ghost image of the printed head of Lincoln,” said Brian Peters, general manager of Minnesota ...
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The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it's a living
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office. But he's not forgetting small change, either. Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making ...