Maybe the guy takes idioms way too literally and thought he actually needed that penny for someone’s thoughts. Maybe he forgot how decimal points work? Maybe he’s a time traveler from the ...

Whenever the penny is threatened, one man stands up to defend it. Mark Weller has been on a roll for three decades, arguing for the one-cent coin’s existence every chance he gets. When the penny ...

Dimes were counterintuitively tiny, but man, they were worth a lot – you ... bowl of coins I keep on a kitchen shelf. I found one penny tarnished by time, and to check the year, I put on my ...

Enthusiastic children would create a Guy Fawkes effigy which they carried around asking for ‘a penny for the Guy’ to help them buy fireworks. By the middle of the 20th Century, Fireworks Night ...