LOOSE CHANGE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2025

The penny could soon be a thing of the past. President Donald Trump is pushing to end production of the one-cent coin, citing its rising costs. Each penny costs nearly four cents to make and scrapping it could save taxpayers about $56 million a year. Deema Zein discussed more with John Feigenbaum of Whitman Publishing, a leading producer of numismatic reference books.

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Does it make sense to keep minting the penny? (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/09/does-it-make-sense-to-keep-minting-the-penny)

The first find, discovered by group member Hubert Piasecki on June 7, was a clay pot filled with treasure.

"[The pot was] filled with coins, ornaments and silver ingots from the early Middle Ages, containing 631 artifacts," Kurowiak said.

"These included cross denarii, foreign coins such as English ones (including from King Harold I of England), as well as German, Hungarian, Czech coins and others."

A few weeks later, on June 28, member Michal Makuch found a pot full of coins from the early Middle Ages.

Though it hasn't been opened yet, Kurowiak said the vessel is packed with silver coins, based on recent CT scans.

"And just when it seemed we couldn't get any luckier, we came upon another treasure – an incredible one, containing a gold necklace (222 grams of pure gold) from the Roman influence period, possibly up to 1,800 years old," he added.

To read the complete article, see:
Hobbyists searching for rockets accidentally unearth 'incredible' ancient treasures buried deep underground (https://www.foxnews.com/travel/hobbyists-searching-rockets-unearth-incredible-ancient-treasures-buried-deep-underground)

Included in the auction is a cherished relic that marks an important event in the history of the Freetown of Christiania. The so-called "Regnbuetræf" medal was issued in connection with an event where the hippies at Christiania invited their counterparts, the "Leather Jackets," from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and England, to a sort of reconciliation celebration in June 1976. The motto was the legendary Mao quote: "Align yourself with your worst enemy, and you will become invincible." However, the event did not turn out as a peaceful reconciliation meeting but ended in 50 hours of fire, smoke, and blood, as the 1,500 invited motorcyclists brought chaos to Christiania and other parts of Copenhagen.

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