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<i>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.
He cashed in his entire collection of 40,000 pennies in 1970 to pay for a daughter's wedding. After the ceremony, he started fresh with an empty cigar box...</i> <A HREF="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm">Entire Story Here</A>
<i>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.
He cashed in his entire collection of 40,000 pennies in 1970 to pay for a daughter's wedding. After the ceremony, he started fresh with an empty cigar box...</i> <A HREF="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-15-penny-collector_x.htm">Entire Story Here</A>