Today, I start my collection of $10 bills

Grandpa Bud always told me that ‘a penny saved is a penny earned.’ He worked the mines in Butte for a lot of his life and from what I know, that was a tough way to earn a buck. His pennies, no doubt, were pinched precisely.

The list of idioms about pennies is a lengthy one. ‘A penny for your thoughts,’ ‘I don’t have two pennies to rub together,’ the ‘bad penny’, ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ and my all-time favorite ‘it costs a pretty penny.’ The list goes on and on, but why do I bring up these little copper dandies today? Let me try to make sense (or cents) of a story I read about this wee...