A Penny Mystery
One in every four of the 2000 million pennies made in Britain during the last eighty years has totally disappeared and nobody knows where or how; 500 million copper coins cannot be accounted for. Pennies always disappear at Christmas time, of course, but they ought to come back into circulation after the season—yet, they don't and the authorities wonder why. As many as 100 million pennies have been minted in a single year, - and as few as four—in 1933—and these were intended for special purposes. One is at the British Museum, one. is kept at the Mint itsdif, and the other two are in the foun- . dation of the London UniversityBuilding. No pennies were minced in the years 1920 penny c .ask' no less than’ £8 for it (for that is the usual price collectors will pay for coins of that,*:';! date, according to some eacperts).^"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 91, 6 September 1948, Page 5
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149A Penny Mystery Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 91, 6 September 1948, Page 5
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