A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Unless you spend $0.50 on penny wrappers.

I realized after I bought the wrappers, I better have a lot of pennies to make them worth buying. I am not sure what the banks' policies are when you bring them change to deposit. Does it have to be nicely wrapped, or do they dump the change into a machine to count them?

As I was going through all the pennies, I started looking at the dates, comparing shineyness, and the aging of the Queen. Then, I started looking for pennies from the year each of us were born. The oldest penny I found was from 1947. It had King George VI on the back. I did find one 2012 penny. We have not really been saving much change lately.

I had no short of pennies from 2007, the year my daughter was born. 2009 seemed to be less frequent in my collection. I only found a couple of those. I found only one from 1975, and two from 1972.

I never kept any of the paper money that was discontinued. What do you think about the loss of the penny? Are you saving any?

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