At some point, when Mark Patinkin accepts that coins – like flip phones – are no longer relevant, he’ll hit a bank to trade in his change for paper money. The truth is, it’s not just pennies that are ...

There was a time pennies had value, in the era of the "five-and-dime." Back in the 1960s, you only needed change for McDonald’s, where they sold a cheeseburger for 33 cents, a regular burger for ...