Penny Collecting

Penny collecting is the collecting of one cent coins and related objects, such as five cent and ten coins. ( Most common in USD rather other kinds of currency ). It is not one of the world's most popular hobbies, but it is a growing hobby.

Collecting

Collecting is not the same as just coin collecting. The main focus is on the year. There are many variates in pennies; color, year, style and the material that its made out of. A normal penny collector with have piles of each year he has. He would also commonly have a year stack. This year stack refers to a stack of pennies starting off from the current year working back to as far as the collector can make in in pennies he has collected.

Clubs

Clubs have recently started in the past year. The most common name in penny collecting is the Cent Collecting Club. This is the only large club and they do trading and selling of pennies and equipment in gathering that they have yearly.

See also

• Penny (Australian coin)
• Penny (British coin)
  • British one penny coin (pre-decimal)
  • British coinage
• Penny (Canadian coin)
• Irish penny coin
  • Irish penny (decimal coin)
• Cent (United States coin)
• Pfennig
• Smashed penny
• Legal Tender Modernization Act

External links

• The MegaPenny Project - A visualisation of what exponential numbers of pennies would look like.
• Silver Pennies - Pictures of English silver pennies from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.
• Copper Pennies - Pictures of English copper pennies from 1797 to 1860.