Friday, Dec. 14th, is the final day to purchase this year’s commemorative coins from the US Mint. The Jamestown 400th anniversary $1 silver and $5 gold coins and the Little Rock 50th anniversary silver dollar haven’t sold out.

However, the law mandating them states that the coins can only be issued during a one-year period. The Mint’s web site provides details:

The United States Mint American Legacy Collection™, Little Rock Central High School Desegregation Coins and the Jamestown 400th Anniversary Coins must be issued by December 31st. In order to meet these requirements, the United States Mint is only accepting orders for these coins until December 14th at 5:00 p.m. ET. Please note that all credit card and billing issues must be resolved prior to December 14th.

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Every year New York City children from participating schools collect pennies from family, friends and neighbors.

These pennies don’t make their way into piggy banks or Lincoln coin collections.

Instead, the children put their pennies together and they’re literally trucked to the Penny Harvest Field, an enormous and specially designed penny-holding structure in Rockefeller Center.

It’s here where the children can see the massiveness of their collection and can better grasp how their combined efforts and hard work will pay off for charities they’ll later select.

Several Penny Harvest Field Stats of Success

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