“An artist has worked full-time for three months to create a replica of a a Lincoln penny… using 84,000 pennies. Wander Martich had started collecting the coins in 2006 when she was going through a tough period during which she got divorced, lost her job and lost her home to foreclosure. And even after getting a job she and her two daughters continued putting $20 of pennies into a jar each week – which later developed into a savings account. That was until 2010 when Martich decided to use her plethora of pennies to create a giant Lincoln penny for an art contest. Martich said she embarked on the penny creation as a way of telling her story and the work has now been acquired by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!… we hope they paid at least $840 for it.” w/ photos
