At 7:27 a.m., a time not seen by Val in a long, long time...we made our first stop on the way to CasinoPalooza 3, to get gas at a Casey's in Potosi, MO. I normally remain in A-Cad while Hick goes inside for the bathroom, and then buys a donut. Just to make a transaction, you know, for the use of their bathroom. Purely for that reason, gas purchase apparently not counting as customertude.
Anyhoo...I went inside this time, to get a couple of scratchers for my Christmas gift stash. I also bought one for me and Hick, which were both $10 winners, not a portent of our future CasinoPalooza 3 fortune. While waiting for the clerk to tear off my tickets, I spied a penny!
It was under the Mentos and good-for-your-teeth gum. A face-down 1999 Lincoln, waiting there just for me.
Sadly, this penny did not bring me good luck on my gamblefest. I did not have access to HIPPY to add it to my Saturday CENTSus in time for its rightful week. So here it is today.
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Let the record show that on Thursday, I saw a penny on the counter of The Gas Station Chicken Store, around the last-minute snacks they put there to try and sway me from my wise choices. I left it, because I don't think counter-pennies are fair game that close to the register. Even though it was nowhere near the Take A Penny dish. Val has SOME standards, you know.
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In other news, I was counting up my accumulated change from cashing out tickets during CasinoPalooza 3, and found a WHEAT PENNY!
You don't see these relics much any more. There's an older version of Abe Lincoln on the front of this 1949 cent.
I gave it to Hick for his collection, without even asking for a replacement penny in return. Because I'm a giver like that.
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For 2018: This was Penny # 129.
For 2018: Dimes still at # 17.
For 2018: Nickels still at # 6.
For 2018: Quarter still at #1.
Since March 2017 (the beginning), this is Penny # 207.
Since March 2017 (the beginning), this is still Dime # 23.
Since March 2017 (the beginning), this is still Nickel # 6.
Since March 2017 (the beginning), this is still Quarter #1.
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Mrs. C found a whole bunch of those wheat's that she was collecting and forgot them in her cluttered office...probably under a towel. I think they may be worth a bit more that regular pennies as the have more copper, not enough to get me a fancy summer home at the shore yet.
ReplyDeleteWell, thank goodness you didn't find her stash and toss them out! She oughta patent that hider-towel concept.
DeleteWow! Do you realize that cent you gave Hick will be 70 years old in about another 10 days?
ReplyDeleteI do now!
DeleteI would have taken that counter penny and been one step closer to pennyillionairedom.
ReplyDeleteI will take one out of the little dry swimming pool at the end of the coin-slide thingy attached to the registers at Orb K. That seems fair. The counter itself doesn't.
DeleteYou're a good penny thief--I mean person, Val!!
DeleteYou need to publish a penny-finding rule handbook.
DeleteI admit to being both a good penny thief, AND a PERSON. Sometimes, even a GOOD person!
DeleteYes, the world definitely needs a penny-finding rule handbook, and I consider myself qualified to set the standards.