Man Cashes In $14,000 In Pennies

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From usatoday.com

To describe Gene Sukie as "penny-wise and pound-foolish" would be seriously underestimating the man.

He has, after all, collected nearly 10,000 pounds of pennies in his lifetime — the greatest feat of spare change collecting yet recorded.

Tuesday, it will all come to an end.

The retired glass-factory supervisor, 78, will cash in what remains of his record-setting collection of 1,407,550 pennies, worth $14,075.50, accumulated over 34 years.

"I didn't set out to set a record, but they add up," Sukie said. "It was something I could save without hurting our household."

Pennies saved from his childhood paper route paid for a $45 Schwinn bicycle in 1939. "Top of the line," he said.

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