coin-collecting

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michaeln1978 is right:

I know this is old, but I couldn’t resist…

It takes 100,000 pennies to make $1,000.00 not one million. That said, if Chris hates pennies so much he would have to throw away ten pennies each day for approximately twenty-seven years to throw away $1,000.00. Now, if Chris is the geek he claims to be that means he hates cash, and if that is the case he doesn’t actually spend enough cash to throw away ten pennies a day. So, although it is physically possible to do so I would imagine Chris has, at most, thrown away around $100.00 or so in pennies.

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“How to make money?” Coin collecting!

As a child, I collected stamps (and was even president of our grade school “stamp club” – with all the benefits of getting out of fourth period math class to discuss the latest in philately). My grandfather, on the other hand – was more of a coin guy. These days, I’d wager his collection is worth more – as coins have been around a lot longer than stamps! So, the question I pose is: how profitable coin collecting be as an investment? The consensus seems to be to that if collecting isn’t a labor of love, then perhaps the long term payoffs simply aren’t worth the effort.

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