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Nov 21, 2004, 01:00 AM
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Space Monocerotis
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Aust
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A penny saved is...
LYNDHURST, Ohio (AP) -- If a penny saved is a penny earned, then Eugene Sukie earned $10,480.13 in his three-plus decades of thriftiness.
Over the years, Eugene Sukie, a retired glass plant supervisor, rolled the pennies in wrappers and stored them in 575 cigar boxes organized by year and mint. He had them counted Tuesday -- by a machine, of course.
The pennies, over one million of them and weighing 3 1/2 tons, were trucked from Sukie's home in Barberton to a coins-to-cash machine at a suburban Cleveland supermarket.
Sukie, 78, was worried that he and his wife were getting old and eventually wouldn't be able to get the pennies out of their basement.
"In the evenings, I'd go into the basement and count them," Sukie said. "It was relaxing for me."
Coinstar Inc., of Bellevue, Washington, which operates coin-counting machines, charged Sukie an 8.9 percent service charge, or $932.73, but paid him $1,500 for the right to tell his story.
That means that, in all, Sukie pocketed more than $11,000.
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Nov 21, 2004, 01:12 AM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Wow. Thats a lot of coins. I once made over $300 from coins I had saved and I thought that was a lot. But $11,000, thats just crazy.
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Nov 21, 2004, 01:45 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: IN Rem-Dormancy
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it doesn't surprise me.. it's quite interesting what accumilates in such a short time....
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Nov 21, 2004, 02:21 AM
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Has a JOB..
Join Date: Aug 2004
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jesus.. thats a ton of pennies.. literally 
but damn... that makes me think alot better about those little insignificant pennies |
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Nov 21, 2004, 02:35 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: U.S.A.
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thats nothing here in indiana a few years ago a guy had over $80,000.00 in pennies
had them in trash barrels in his garrage took many truck loads to cash...
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Nov 21, 2004, 10:39 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Da choppa
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And I thought pennies were just a waste of my pocket space! 
Well, I'd better start getting mighty serious with that piggy bank (even though I can't even remember where the bloody hell I put it.  )
Last edited by Callandor; Nov 21, 2004 at 10:47 AM.
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Nov 21, 2004, 10:46 AM
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ein Krieger
Join Date: Jan 2004
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that is ALOT of coins. like seriously, so many coins it's ridiculous. I work at a bank, and deal with boxes of coin all day long. when we get the boxes from the fed, the pennies come in 25 dollar boxes. these boxes weigh probably around 30-40 pounds. it is insaaaaaaaane to have that many pennies.
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