Where in the World is Joe?

CoinOKC · Aug 25, 2013

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The Goldeneye · Aug 26, 2013

Mint leaves?

The Goldeneye · Aug 26, 2013

Oh the Philadelphia mint?

CoinOKC · Aug 26, 2013

Bingo!

JoeNation · Aug 26, 2013

He is right. It was the Philly Mint.

rlm's cents · Aug 26, 2013

JoeNation said: ↑

He is right. It was the Philly Mint.
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Actually, you are wrong!

JoeNation · Aug 26, 2013

I'm wrong about where I am? Oh!

rlm's cents · Aug 26, 2013

JoeNation said: ↑

I'm wrong about where I am? Oh!
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I have no idea where you are currently, but that was a picture of the US mint. And for you amusement, Google says it is Dr. Christian Santana, DDS. Don't ask because I have no idea why.

The Goldeneye · Aug 27, 2013

CoinOKC said: ↑

Christ Church, PA. That stone would look better with Franklin Halves on it instead of Lincoln Cents.
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That or hundred collar bills

rlm's cents · Aug 27, 2013

Leaving Pennies on a Grave There are many traditions that involve placing objects, specifically money, on graves. These traditions are usually regional or customary practices and do not necessarily have religious connotations. In American tradition, pennies are left on Benjamin Franklin's grave. There is a photo of his funeral in Philadelphia; his grave is adorned with pennies, no doubt placed there as a token by some of the 20,000 people that came that day to pay their respects. This custom was eventually associated with good luck and may have spread to graves in general in America. Some use pennies as a prayer token for the line "In God we trust" which appears on the American penny. , Some people hold to the tradition of leaving something of yourself when visiting a grave. If nothing else, a coin from your pocket serves as a marker of your passage and esteem for the departed. It also signifies to any that pass by that the grave was visited, and that the deceased is well loved and esteemed and has not been abandoned or forgotten. Coins are also an older form of leaving flowers, a practice prompted by the heavy Romanticism of the Victorian era., Some believe that to leave a coin on a grave brings good luck. Students in some areas are known to leave pennies on the graves of their school's founder in the hopes of good luck with exams., Some are, perhaps unwittingly, mimicking the ancient tradition where gold coins were buried with the corpse in order to pay
the toll charged by Charon, the boatman of the Underworld, for passage to the other side of the river Styx. It was considered impious not to leave this toll with the dead as it would condemn them to forever wander the shores without cease., It started as an old tradition to leave a penny at the grave site of a loved one as a gesture of deep love and missing. However, when tourists pay their respect to Benjamin Franklin, pennies dot his tombstone, as a local tradition claims that such a practice will bring the penny-tosser luck., Of course he is a a man famous for the line, "A penny saved, is a penny earned,".
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_pennies_put_on_a_grave#page3

JoeNation · Aug 27, 2013

The Goldeneye said: ↑

That or hundred collar bills
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Problem is that the stone is so close to the fence, that no matter what you put on it, anyone can just reach through and take whatever they want. Beside, who was it that said, "A penny saved is a penny earned"? It seems kind of like a slap in the face to leave pennies on this particular grave stone. Just sayin'...

clembo · Aug 28, 2013

JoeNation said: ↑

Problem is that the stone is so close to the fence, that no matter what you put on it, anyone can just reach through and take whatever they want. Beside, who was it that said, "A penny saved is a penny earned"? It seems kind of like a slap in the face to leave pennies on this particular grave stone. Just sayin'...
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I can't help it.

Those aren't pennies. They're cents.

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