A Fortuitous HapPENCEstance

This week gave me a penny early, on SUNDAY, September 16th, at Waterside Mart. Good thing I put my phone in my pocket to capture the evidence!

I wasted no dime in documenting this discovery, and snatching it for my Future Pennyillionaire collection.

A face-down 1999, deceptively shiny for Ol' Abe to be so long-in-the-tooth.
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I wasn't really dwelling on finding more, but THURSDAY, September 20, a bit of good luck fell right out of EmBee's mouth and into Val's hand.

Of course it was face down. I seem to get more than my fair share of that kind. Then again, I seem to get more than my fair share of pennies. Thanks, Littleton Coin Co, for sending me this FREE mint condition 2018. So beautiful that it looks as if somebody tried to pilfer it before it got to me. Or else those post office scanning machines are only meant for dime thickness.

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HOLD THE PRESSES (AGAIN)

Of course I found more pennies for my Future Pennyillionaire collection after having this edition of the Saturday CENTSus done and set to automatically publish. Uh huh. Just one scant hour from going to press, I was gifted with TWO pennies at Orb K on SATURDAY, September 22nd.

While waiting for four angst-spewing clerks to finish up their personal drama, I spied this one at the junction of Mounds and Butterfinger. Sorry for no closeup. Those clerks had me so discombobulated that I forgot to tap the TAKE THE PICTURE BUTTON on my cell phone. I had it zoomed in and everything, but the gal who came back with my ticket said, "Here it is!" Sheesh! She could have taken the money I had laid on the counter already and let me finish my thought (perhaps illicit) picture-taking.

This one was so dirtied with tar or some substance that it almost looks like a dime when you zoom in. I could barely tell that it was face down. A 2015.

In contrast, the 1995 face-up Abe that I captured outside looks positively shiny for his age.

I would have nabbed this one on the way in, but a man and woman with a dog on a leash were kind of monopolizing the area to stay out of the rain. They were gone when I came out. You can see the paw prints. I think it was a pit bull/heeler mix, from the stocky body, size, and big standup ears, black, with a peppering of white mixed in.

I might have to start letting these Saturday CENTSus posts languish until I'm safely back home from town, and then manually publish them. Of course if I do that, I'm sure to return home penny-less.

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For 2018: Penny  # 94, 95, 96, 97.
For 2018: Dimes still at  # 14.
For 2018: Nickels still at # 4.

Since 2017 (the beginning), this was Penny # 172, 173, 174, 175.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this is still Dime # 20.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this is still Nickel # 4.
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