The World's Largest Penny commemorates a 1953 fund-raising stunt. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb (known locally as "The Angel On Snowshoes") implored local school children to save their pennies so that Woodruff could build a hospital. TV picked up on the story and pennies were soon pouring in from all over the country -- 1.7 million in all.
The Million Penny Paraders published a pamphlet of their penny drive that was handed out at their parade and in the gym where the pennies were on display in 1953. Here are their penny statistics:
• Pile in a single column the 1,000,000 pennies will make a column 5, 000 feet high.
• Place side-by-side the pennies would produce a ribbon of copper for 11.84 miles.
• If 10 pennies weigh 1.107 ounces, the 1,000,000 of them will weigh 6918.75 pounds or 3.459 tons.
• 1,000,000 pennies placed side-by-side will cover an area of 3906.24 square feet.
• In a solid mass the 1,000, 000 pennies would be equivalent to 2.212 cubic yards, which means that a 2 yard dump truck would not be able to haul them.
• Coinage of the present bronze cent (derived from the Latin centum “hundred”) consisting of 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc, began in 1864, and continued with the Indian head until 1909 when the bust of Lincoln was placed on the cent and contuse to date.
• Between the dates 1909 to 1951 inclusive 18, 279,679,954 pennies were coined in the United States.
• The million pennies of the Penny Parade is .00547 of the total amount minted or .547%.
• If a man could have started collecting a million pennies a penny a day on the day of the birth of Christ, he would complete his collection on about November 6, 2737.”
You will find this cache at N44 3A.1BB W90 00.CCD
A = The last digit of the year of the penny in the picture plus 1
B = Use the last digit of the year, if a man could have started collecting a million pennies a penny a day on the day of the birth of Christ, he would complete his collection on about November 6, xxxx.
C = How many letters in the city where the World’s Largest Penny is located?
D = What number appears twice in the year the Indian Head penny stopped and the Lincoln Head penny started?