“Back then, some people would take ‘penny walks,’ ” Sherry wrote. At the end of the block, they would flip the penny again and go in the direction the head was facing. “If the penny landed with the reverse side up, they had to retrace the steps they had just taken for a block,” Sherry wrote. “Even in the Depression they could find a penny. Who knew that a lowly penny could be walking-around money?

Source: Washington Post August 12, 2020 21:00 UTC