Happy 200th Birthday President Lincoln. You’d be happy to know that I plan on reading a book about your administration later this year.
Fun Facts About Pennies & Coins:
» According to a 2006 Coinstar study, almost two-thirds of Americans (63 percent) still feel the penny should be retained as an important symbol of American culture, history and the economy.
» According to a Coinstar study, two-thirds (66%) of Americans say they tend to accumulate loose change. And of those who accumulate change, 32 percent say they are recycling or cashing in their change more now than a year ago.
» Coinstar asked Americans which group of well-known figures beyond presidents they’d like to see on a U.S. coin. The poll revealed that more than 25 percent of Americans rank Notable Scientists and Inventors as their top choice.
» According to the Coinstar National Currency Poll, 81 percent of Americans said that they don’t feel guilty about having change sitting around, not being put to use. However, 78 percent of poll respondents said they would make more of an effort to put coins back into circulation if they knew it would reduce environmental impacts.
» The Lincoln cent was the first U.S. circulating coin to bear a president’s image.
» Forty-two percent of the change you get back every day is handed out in pennies.
» A penny stays in circulation for 30 years.
» It costs the U.S. government 1.2 cents to make a 1-cent penny.
» According to Coinstar there’s more than $10 billion in loose change hiding in homes across the U.S., which is roughly $90 per household!
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