Stacked up – 52,600 km high, almost 100,000 CN Towers.Total weight – 94 million kg, 103,617 tons, almost 2x the Titanic.Since 1908 35 billion pennies have been minted.In 1976 the Royal Canadian Mint officially opened and began production of circulation coins in Winnipeg.There are only three known specimens to exist. The 1936 dot is Canada’s most valuable penny worth over $400,000.In 1931 the mint became a wholly Canadian Institute and was renamed the Royal Canadian Mint.In 1908 the British Royal Mint opened a branch in Ottawa.In 1858 Canada’s first penny was struck by the British Royal Mint in London.Since 1997 pennies were made with copper-plated zinc or copper-plated steel.Until 1996 pennies were made mostly of copper.In 1797 the first British copper penny was struck and minted on a steam-powered press designed by James Watt and Matthew Boulton.I remember how rich I thought I was because of the all the pennies I had saved if only the ‘volume’ of money could create that same feeling for me today.

However, I am sure they will be missed in the old penny loafers and in small children’s piggy banks. The Canadian penny is slowly being phased out and to be honest I won’t miss having to carry them around in my wallet or hunting them down in the crevices of my car when grabbing coffee at the drive through.

Endless sky hunt down