taking a page from Carl Barks and Scrooge McDuck, the trick is to collect as many pennies as your can, melt down almost all of them and sell the remaining, now

taking a page from Carl Barks and Scrooge McDuck, the trick is to collect as many pennies as your can, melt down almost all of them and sell the remaining, now incredibly rare, few for a larger amount of money. see [0] for further details, including pitfalls of retaining only a single coin and the joys of pie fights. for reference (spoilers, but the story is from 1954, so...) the outcome of hoarding and destroying [dubious, discuss] all but one 1916 US quarter was to raise the price to one skyrillion [conversation to SI prefix uncertain] dollars, resulting in failure to realise the cash value of said asset. but, pie fight. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Atlantis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Atlantis