# Freaky thing I found
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 23, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874 "2001-11-23T07:16:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/1 "2001-11-23T07:16:19Z")
You know those penny stamping machines at random places? They stamp some saying or picture on a penny for fifty cents. Over the summer I was on a trip to Virginia with a few of my friends. We stopped at a rest stop in northern New Jersey. I was asleep. One of my friends gets back in the car and tosses me one of these pennys, for the longest time I forgot what it said, just that it wasn’t interesting to me at the time. I just found the thing in my coat pocket. It has “WORLD TRADE CENTER” printed on it with a picture of the towers. What should I do with the thing? I don’t want to sell it, that would be capitalizing off the disaster. It was just so strange…
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### Author:  [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/2 "2001-11-23T07:52:21Z")
Sell it?
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/3 "2001-11-23T07:54:05Z")
Keep it.
Throw it in with that odd box of stuff you have - neat rocks, etc.
Then, when you’re old, and have grandchildren, and it’s a rainy weekend afternoon, pull out that box and show them what you have, and how you acquired it, and what it means.
You wouldn’t believe how much I know about my grandparents because of their ‘odd boxes’.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/4 "2001-11-23T14:11:22Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Eternal \*
> \*\*Sell it? \*\*
Again, I don’t want to gain money of this disaster.
I like chinque’s idea… any others?
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### Author:  [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/5 "2001-11-23T16:36:29Z")
Build a shrine and worship it as the work of the caring and loving God of illegal defacement of legal tender. It should be prayed before three times a day: Lunch, dinner, and after “The Simpsons”. Wait . . .
It doesn’t have an [11](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95992) on it does it??? Cool Pennies is 11 letters!!!
DaLovin’ Dj
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### Author:  [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/6 "2001-11-23T17:05:09Z")
Just exactly how much do you think this penny is worth? I doubt you’d be profiting more than $.50 - $1 on it even if you did sell it.
Don’t lose sleep over it. Put it somewhere in the back of your closet and forget about it.
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### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-thing-i-found/94874/7 "2001-11-23T17:08:34Z")
Maybe you could GIVE it to someone who wants it.