Monday, September 13, 2010

Worth more than just a pretty penny


By the time I figured out that U.S. pennies are minted exactly the same way every year until 2010, I had already written about half my list for the differences between them. To say it was hard to find the differences in an object made to be identical is an understatement. My most interesting observation, however, was that when aligned by year, some of the older pennies actually looked newer than some of the newest pennies. For example, that really messed up penny in the center from 200X* looks older than the penny from 1990. They all aged differently.

*I can't actually read the year it's from.

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