Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1919 — NINETY MILLION PENNIES TURNED OUT EACH MONTH. [ARTICLE]

NINETY MILLION PENNIES TURNED OUT EACH MONTH.

Ninety million pennies are being turned "out of the United States mints every month to meet the demand for the "odd cent” sales caused by the war taxes. This average of 3,000.000 coppers daily requires between 400 and 500 people in the various mints just to count the pennies and put them in 'packages for distribution. Practic- ' ally all of the work of the mints is now being diverted to making pennies. At the present rate, t|ie output, bringing it down to fine points, is about thirty-five bright, new pennies every time the clock ticks. Plans iare to continue this large producition for several weeks. ■