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Business Standard
8 hours ago
- Business
- Business Standard
India to revamp maritime rules for emission goals; shipping costs to rise
The Indian government is drafting new rules to align the maritime sector with the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) upcoming emission regulations, Mint reported on Saturday. The move is part of a broader effort to support India's maritime development and green transition goals. The proposed rules will influence the design, construction, and operational costs of ships, as well as the structural planning for new mega ports and shipyards. Developed under the IMO's Revised GHG Strategy 2023, these standards will introduce new fuel norms for ships and a global carbon pricing mechanism. 'These regulations will also define parameters for building green fuel filling stations at ports, and training programmes for the workforce involved in related activities,' a source told Mint. New ships built at Indian shipyards will either need dual-fuel capabilities or be entirely designed to run on green fuels such as compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, methanol, ammonia, green hydrogen, or electricity. Currently, diesel is the primary fuel for vessels operating on inland waterways, select coastal routes, and international voyages. Phased emission reductions The new rules will feature a phased plan for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction and a timeline for green upgrades at ports. Shipowners will be required to engage classification societies for early compliance assessments. The Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, has already issued a guidance note outlining the IMO's Net Zero Framework and Greenhouse Gas Fuel Intensity (GFI)-based compliance requirements. The advisory aims to help stakeholders familiarise themselves with the regulations and plan for their implementation. The IMO's action plan targets net-zero emissions from international shipping by 2050 through a mix of technical fuel standards and market-based pricing mechanisms. The GFI-based system will formally take effect in March 2027 and become operational in 2028. It requires a gradual reduction in the carbon intensity of fuels used by ships over 5,000 gross tonnes (GT) engaged in international trade. This applies to all ships flagged under MARPOL, the main international convention for preventing marine pollution. Economic and strategic impact According to Mint, the new regulations are expected to have far-reaching operational, economic, and strategic implications for shipowners, ports, training institutes, classification societies, and fuel suppliers. The DGS estimates that India's compliance cost could be $87–100 million annually by 2030, translating to a 14 per cent increase in fuel costs and a 5 per cent hike in freight rates. However, India could also see strategic benefits, as it aims to produce 5 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030, which would enable the production of 28 million tonnes of ammonia and 26.3 million tonnes of methanol — both qualifying for compliance credits under the IMO's GFI system. Implementation strategy The DGS has advised all stakeholders — shipowners, port authorities, fuel suppliers, and training institutions — to review the guidance note and begin preparations, including fuel intensity monitoring, workforce training, and green infrastructure planning. Although only 14 per cent of India's registered fleet currently qualifies for IMO compliance, domestic shipyards are already exploring retrofitting and green ship designs to capture new market opportunities. Exporters relying on foreign ships may face higher freight costs if those vessels fail to meet GHG compliance, making it essential to factor these regulations into chartering decisions.
Mint
9 hours ago
- General
- Mint
How handcrafted tea is changing Kaziranga women's lives
When Meena Tokbipi, living less than one kilometre from Kaziranga National Park's (KNP) Kohora Range in Assam, planted tea saplings in her backyard for the first time in 2004, all she wanted was to grow enough for her family. Cut to 2025, the resident of Engle Pathar, a small village in the Karbi Anglong district, has carved a niche for herself as a proponent of Sa Tokbe—the traditional Karbi green tea, selling green tea at ₹ 3,000 per kilogramme. She also grows black tea (sold at ₹ 3,000/kg), orthodox tea ( ₹ 3,000/kg), and smoked tea ( ₹ 1,600-2,000/kg) in her 7.5 hectare tea garden, which produces 3 quintal tea per week during peak season, i.e, monsoon (June-July). "I decided to start a tea garden in my home in 2002. I plucked tea leaves for the first time in 2009. At that time, after keeping a portion of the produce for the consumption of the family, I sold the tea leaves to middlemen at a nominal price,' the 51-year-old told Mint. The price offered by middlemen fluctuated, from ₹ 30/kg for raw tea leaves to as low as ₹ 10/kg. 'This system continued for a decade. We were somehow managing but not making much profit,' she added. Things changed in 2020 when she participated in a training programme on how to make handcrafted tea, organised by the conservation non-profit Aaranyak. Nineteen Karbi women from 10 villages around KNP participated in the programme. However, only four women from three villages—Engle Pathar, Rongtara, and Bakrung Engti—are actively preparing handcrafted tea. PIRBI store at the Kohora Range within Kaziranga National Park. Aaranyak's initiative, PIRBI, a community business selling naturally grown products that supports Indigenous farmers in the region, is marketing, branding, and selling their products. PIRBI, meaning biosphere in the Karbi language, showcases and sells Karbi ethnic products, such as edibles, handwoven garments, handicrafts, etc., at its store near the main gate of the Kohora Range. The initiative is helping women living in the fringe villages of KNP become self-reliant, said Swapan Nath, the acting treasurer of PIRBI. 'In many of these families, the males don't earn much, and so the burden of running the family falls on the women. The women here are very skilled in making various kinds of products, which attract tourists and walk-in customers—people who stop at our store while visiting the national park.' 'PIRBI contributes 12% of its profit to biodiversity conservation and community development. It shares 5% of the profit with the artisans, growers, and collectors,' explained Nath, who is also an independent journalist and a headmaster at a local school. Tokbipi neither belongs to a tea grower family nor is she from Kaziranga. She hails from a Bodo-Kachari family in Biswanath district's Gohpur town. She married Chandra Tokbipi, a Karbi man working at a tea garden in Behali. Their lives changed in 1989 when Assamese and Bodos got involved in a deadly strife in Gohpur. Karbis were caught in the crossfire in the incident that killed 31 and rendered thousands homeless. Meena Tokbipi. 'In 1990, we decided to leave Gohpur. My husband had an aunt in Karbi Anglong, where we initially took shelter. Later, we went to Bagori in Kaziranga and stayed there for five years. In 1996, we settled in Engle Pathar,' she said. Kaziranga was a harsh landscape, but they slowly adapted. Before her tea business took off, her family had to fight abject poverty. Her husband did odd jobs while she sold products like betel nut and homemade pickles. Things got worse when she lost her husband in a 2011 road accident. Today, she employs five women from her village as pluckers for ₹ 200 each daily. 'As the pluckers working in my garden are not highly trained, they can pluck only 15-18 kg daily. Professional pluckers working in big tea gardens can pluck up to 30 kg daily. To manufacture one kilogramme of handcrafted tea, we need four kilogrammes of raw tea leaves,' said. 'After plucking the tea, the leaves are thrown in boiling water for 5-10 seconds. The boiled leaves are rolled by hand and dried. It takes two sunny days to get the best taste, flavour, aroma, and colour. For perfect green tea, the buds have to turn white and the leaves dark,' Tokbipi explained. Her eldest daughter, Moina Kramsapi (33), a Tezpur Law College graduate, has also become an entrepreneur by turning a portion of her mother's tea garden into an eco-camp named Kramsa Rock Garden. 'I started the eco-camp in 2019. We have a pond with an area of two and a half bighas where we provide our guests the facility of angling for ₹ 50 per hour. We also arrange two trails: a two-hour trek from the camp to a natural rock cave and a half-day trek. We have both English and Assamese/Hindi speaking guides,' she said. Sika Terangpi and her sister-in-law Rukmini from the Rongtara village dealt with a different set of challenges. Before growing tea, their family practised Jhum cultivation, growing crops like king chilli, sweet potato, banana flower, etc. Still, the family led a hand-to-mouth existence. 'After we started growing green tea, our income has increased. We have a small garden, and we are using it entirely to make handcrafted tea. We don't sell tender tea leaves to agents,' Sika said. However, the lack of roads and communication bottlenecks make lives challenging for them. 'There is no motorable road up to our village. It takes around 2.5 hours to walk from the main road in Kohora to reach our village. Phone connectivity is also poor in our village. We have to go down to the plains for every essential work, be it selling our farm produce or obtaining cooking gas,' she added. They couldn't afford to employ pluckers, so they do the plucking, processing, and tea making themselves. Rukmini, a single mother, is financing the education of her three children with the money earned from the tea garden. Not many small tea growers produce handcrafted tea in Assam, according to Bhogeswari Changmai, one of the first people in the state to start making handcrafted tea. While there are 122,415 small tea growers in the state, according to the recent Tea Board of India data, only about 120 people make handcrafted tea, claimed Changmai. The organic, handcrafted tea is popular because of its health benefits, said Changmai, who was awarded 'Entrepreneur of the Year' by the Assam government in 2021 and has exported her products to Taiwan, Dubai, and Belgium. 'It contains antioxidants, and it has got a lot of health benefits like lowering the risk of cancer and heart disease and boosting the immune system.' Though there is demand for handcrafted tea, only a few have been successful in creating a brand, added Dipanjol Deka, secretary, Tea Association of India. 'Also, this tea is mainly consumed by the elite, as everyone can't afford it. Here, common people drink red tea or what we call laal saah in our colloquial language. In the northern and western parts of India, people prefer milk tea. So, producing handcrafted tea is not of much use unless the middle class and the working class start consuming it.' 'Handcrafted tea is yet to reach its real potential. They should be taken to niche markets around the world with a proper marketing strategy,' said researcher Pradip Baruah, who has penned seven books on tea. However, Nath said success stories of women like Tokbipi and Terangpi may inspire more Karbi women to start making handcrafted tea. 'They can turn entrepreneurs and establish a new identity for themselves with the help of handcrafted tea."
Mint
18 hours ago
- Climate
- Mint
The world has already breached a dangerous level of warming, and India isn't prepared
NEW DELHI : Climate Change & You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your inbox. Dear reader, As I was writing this newsletter, Mumbai was drowning in record rains. The monsoon set in 8 days early this year, and according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), it is so early that it has already touched Mumbai. In fact, this year the monsoon came to Mumbai two weeks early, within 24 hours of its onset in Kerala. Mumbai certainly wasn't ready for it. In fact, by the morning of 26 May, one of the city's main stations in Colaba registered a record-breaking amount of rainfall—at 295mm—for the month of May. The previous record was set in 1918 – 107 years ago. We will soon know if climate change played a role in both the early onset of monsoon, as well as the rainfall in Mumbai. But what is already clear is that with rising atmospheric heat, monsoon rains will be more erratic and heavier as the years go by, simply because hotter air can hold more moisture, resulting in cloudbursts like the one in Mumbai on Sunday night. Speaking of climate anomalies, April 2025 was the second hottest April on record, after 2024. According to EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus, the global average temperature in April was 1.51 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels. This made April the 21st straight month that was 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial times, prompting some scientists to wonder if the world has already crossed the safety limit of 1.5 degrees of warming on a permanent basis. In fact, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization states that, by 2030, the world might experience at least one year that is 2 degrees hotter. If this is true, then this spells very bad news for the planet, as we will see below. STATE OF THE CLIMATE India's unbearable heat is rising The biggest climate threat in India continues to be heat, and the heat risk is rising. According to a recent study by the New Delhi-based climate policy thinktank Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), 57% of India's districts are facing high to very high heat hazards. And 76% of India's population lives in these districts. The risk assessment study is based on 34 separate heat indicators from 734 districts across the country. It found that 417 districts are in the high risk zone, while another 201 faced moderate heat hazards. The top ten heat prone states and union territories include Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Uttar Pradesh. Also Read: Remembering the Climate Pope The report, titled How Extreme Heat Is Impacting India, highlighted two important dimensions of rising heat—an increase in very warm nights, and a rise in humid heat. Both of these factors amplify the effect of heat on the human body, and can lead to deadly overheating. According to the study, nearly 70% of the districts recorded an increase of over five extra warm nights per year between 2012 and 2022, as compared with 1982-2011. This is especially true of cities, where the heat island effect caused by highly built-up environments has been boosting warmer nights. For example, Mumbai recorded 15 additional 'very warm' summer nights in the past decade compared with the previous three decades. It is a similar situation for other cities like Jaipur and Chennai. With a 10% rise in relative humidity in north India, drier cities like New Delhi are seeing more humid heat, and high humidity plus heat is a deadly combination for the human body. THE NEWS IN BRIEF -In an incisive and well-researched article,LA Timesclimate reporter Sammy Roth lays out how Warren Buffet's investments for Berkshire have always skewed towards fossil fuels, helping drive planet-heating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. -All eyes are on Brazil, as the country gears up to host a pivotal global climate conference this November. In this interview with Hindustan Times, COP30 president designate André Aranha Correa do Lago lays out his priorities for the summit. -In this opinion piece, noted climate skeptic and contrarian Bjorn Lomberg questions if renewable energy really is cheaper than fossil fuels. CLIMATE CHANGE TRACKER Sea-level rise threatening India's coasts I started this newsletter by noting that the world has already experienced 21 consecutive months of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global heating. Over the past decade, the average heating was of 1.2 degrees, but it seems like we are steadily moving into a much hotter world, sooner than many had predicted. In fact, it is clear that the goal to keep warming to under 1.5 degrees by 2100 is already unreachable, with many climate scientists predicting a catastrophic rise of 2.5-3 degrees of heat this century. This will have serious consequences. According to a major climate science study published earlier in May, sea-level rise may become unstoppable once the world hits 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming permanently. The study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, states that even at current levels of heating, the global sea-level is set to rise by 1cm a year by 2100. Given that we are on course to nearly 3 degrees of heating, this would be devastating for the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets, leading to their collapse and a sea level rise of 12m. To put that into perspective, about 230 million people around the world's coastal areas live 1m above the current sea level, while 1 billion people live within 10m above sea level. In India, at least 63 million people (6% of the total population) live within 10m of seacoasts, the second highest in the world after China. For India, this number is projected to grow to 216 million people (10.3% of the total population) by 2060. With sea-level rise a given, there's an urgent need to adapt to this new reality. Which leads us to the next section. KNOW YOUR JARGON Climate Migration With India facing multiple climate threats, the one major change that will be triggered by rising climate hazards is migration. Whether it is sea-level rise, or other impacts like water stress, low crop yields, ecosystem loss and droughts, more and more Indians—mostly the poorest—will be forced to become climate refugees in their own country. According to a 2020 report by Climate Action Network South Asia, about 14 million Indians were forced to migrate due to climate change the absence of drastic climate mitigation measures, the report forecasts over 45 million migrants by 2050. This is a reality that India urgently needs to plan for. Also Read: A deep dive into India's climate crisis Among the many measures that experts urge countries to make is to enhance resilience among vulnerable communities, ensure just transition for agriculture workers, provide universal access to social protection measures, guarantee decent work by creating job opportunities and have a plan for safe, orderly and dignified movement during forced migrations. This will require a combination of international finance access, and generating local finances by progressive taxation of fossil fuel companies, and even international cooperation with our neighbouring countries. India is badly lagging in all of these areas, though some initial measures have been taken. Last year, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) set up a three-year project to increase resilience measures for climate vulnerable communities in Odisha and Telangana. This programme offers alternatives to migration, though it is also mandated to provide information for safe migration. But there is no actual policy addressing migration, apart from a private member's bill on climate migrants' protection and rehabilitation from an Assam Congress MP, which has been gathering dust since 2022. PRIME NUMBER 6.7 In 2024, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of primary forests, according to new data from the University of Maryland's GLAD Lab. The data, hosted on the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch platform, shows that this is nearly twice as much forest loss as in 2023. To put it another way, in 2024, the world lost forests at the rate of 18 football fields every minute. The data also revealed a disturbing new trend—loss due to fires. In 2024, nearly half the forest loss was due to fires, a huge jump from previous years, when agriculture was the primary driver of these losses. These fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, four times more than emissions from all air travel in 2023. The loss of forest cover is a major driver of climate change, as without humid primary forests, land on the planet loses its capacity to store carbon. Forests are the most effective carbon capture and storage tech we know of. Between 2002 and 2024, the world lost 83 million hectares of primary forests, or 8.1% of forest cover. According to the Global Forest Watch data, India has lost 348 kilohectares (1kha=1,000 hectares) of primary forests in 2002-2024, about 15% of the country's entire tree cover. BOOK OF THE MONTH Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer The human urge to view nature as something that is passive is rather strong, which shows itself in the seemingly carefree way in which we plunder it for our gains. But as Jeff Vandermeer's award-winning weird fiction novel Annihilation shows, this couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, natural processes are gigantic and care not a whit for human claims of mastery. If we cannot adapt our ways to the laws of nature, we will be overwhelmed, subsumed and, well, annihilated. In the novel this process takes the form of a seemingly alien entity that creates a human free zone in south Florida, called Area X. As Area X expands, all human signs are obliterated, and people caught inside it are changed into inhuman beings, monstrous to us, but utterly harmonious with nature. The first of an acclaimed trilogy, Annihilation is a must-read for its imaginative and unsettling depiction of nature that doesn't care about human beings. So that's it for this edition of Climate Change & You, dear reader. Sayantan will be back in a fortnight with the next instalment. Also Read: When winter melts into summer
Mint
19 hours ago
- Business
- Mint
How to use Google Stitch to design apps even if you have zero coding skills
Imagine you're a small business owner with an idea for a mobile app but limited design or coding skills. You hand-sketch a basic wireframe and try to share your vision with a designer, but turning that design into functional code for a developer takes time and often leads to miscommunication. This handoff challenge, where design and code don't align easily-creates delays and frustration, making it hard to quickly iterate and share a working prototype with your team. A new tool, Stitch by Google, helps you solve this. Unlike tools like Uizard or Figma's Make UI, which focus primarily on generating designs, or Cursor and Codex, which emphasize code but lack robust user interface (UI) creation, Stitch seamlessly bridges this gap by converting your text prompt or sketch into both a polished UI design and production-ready HTML/CSS code in minutes. How to access: Google Stitch can help you with: Text prompting: Generate UI from text, e.g., "a minimalist meditation app with a blue and white palette" Tool integration: Export to Figma for refinement or to IDEs for development Natural tweaks: Quickly iterate using natural language ("make the font bolder", "add a login button") Variant testing: Produce multiple design variants for testing Example: You've got a great idea for a journaling app but don't code. Steps to follow for creating UX: Go to: Select 'Web' (or 'Mobile') Include the following prompt: 'Create a calming journaling app with soft, pastel colors (light blues and lavenders), a full-width header featuring the app logo and title, a large central text box with rounded corners and subtle shadow for writing entries, placeholder text saying 'Start journaling…', and a semi-transparent floating circular save button with a check icon at the bottom right. Include a minimal bottom nav bar with icons for 'Home', 'Entries', and 'Settings'." In seconds, Stitch gives you: You can export to Figma, make quick brand-specific adjustments, and share the design with your team lead—saving hours in the process. What makes Google Stitch special? Gemini power: Powered by Google's Gemini 2.5 models for highly accurate UI understanding. Native image tool integration: Access Google's image tool- Imagen natively to adjust product images. Languages support: Ask Stitch to automatically update the copy to different languages. Free access: Currently in public beta with free monthly generation quotas. Mint's 'AI tool of the week' is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Note: The tools and analysis featured in this section demonstrated clear value based on our internal testing. Our recommendations are entirely independent and not influenced by the tool creators. Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO of AI&Beyond. Anuj Magazine is also a co-founder.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Are old pennies worth money? Here's how to check if you have a rare penny
Penny production in the U.S. is grinding to a stop. More than 3 billion pennies were minted in the U.S. last year, but according to the U.S. Mint's annual report from 2024, they're now more expensive to make than the one cent that they're worth. In February, President Donald Trump said he would order the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies to save money. And as of May 2025, the Mint placed its final order of penny blanks. Once those blanks run out some time in 2026, no more new pennies will be made. The old pennies you have will still be acceptable to use as payment, but any rare pennies you might have lying around could be worth more than the one cent that they represent. Here's a quick explainer on rare pennies and how to tell if you have a rare penny worth more than a cent. The Mint hasn't stopped making pennies yet. Pennies will still be produced, until the Mint runs out of blanks for them, which is expected to be sometime in 2026. What's next for the penny? The details on US decision to end penny production According to American Bullion, an investment service that specializes in precious metal IRAs, most pennies are only worth one cent, but there are certain minting years that can dramatically increase their value. 'Penny collectors, also known as numismatists, value pennies based on their minting year, rarity, condition, and production errors,' American Bullion says. 'Some rare pennies can be worth far more than their face value, reaching the thousands.' Are your old pennies worth millions? Experts say you shouldn't bank on it A 'wheat penny,' sometimes also called a 'Lincoln wheat cent' or a 'Lincoln penny,' is a penny that has Abraham Lincoln's portrait on one side and two ears of wheat on the other. These pennies were minted from the years 1909 through 1958 and can be worth thousands of dollars, depending on the year they were made. 'Most Lincoln wheat pennies are generally valued at a few cents. If they are found in good condition, they can be worth up to $20 or $30 on average,' according to Bullion Exchanges. 'However, Lincoln Pennies with certain dates, low mintages, or errors can be worth a significant amount of money.' John Feigenbaum, publisher of rare coin price guide Greysheet, told USA TODAY that while the odds of having an incredibly rare wheat penny worth thousands are similar to the odds of winning the lottery, there are some that could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 'Depending on their condition, those 1943 Lincoln wheat pennies would be worth at most between $100,000 and $250,000,' Feigenbaum told USA TODAY. Here's a list of rare pennies worth more than one cent, from American Bullion's website: 1943 Copper Penny: Almost all 1943 pennies were made of zinc-coated steel, but a few copper versions were mistakenly minted. These pennies are scarce and can be worth up to $85,000. 1955 Doubled-Die Penny: Because of the doubled text, these pennies are worth more than one cent. While their value can vary depending on their condition, some have sold for over $1,000. 1969-S Doubled-Die Penny: These pennies can also fetch a significant sum. In pristine condition, they can be worth up to $70,000. 1943: During World War II, copper was crucial for the war effort, leading the U.S. Mint to produce pennies from zinc-coated steel. However, a few copper pennies from 1943 were mistakenly minted, making them rare and highly valued. 1955: Known as the '1955 doubled-die cent,' these pennies were minted with an error that makes the 'Liberty' and 'In God, We Trust' inscriptions appear doubled. The coin's date also appears twice. 1969-S: A handful of pennies were mistakenly minted with a doubled die, making the image and text appear slightly doubled. These pennies are rare and highly sought after by collectors. 1972: This year also saw a batch of doubled-die pennies, which, although not as rare as the 1955 or 1969-S, are still worth significantly more than face value. 1909-S VDB: One of the most coveted pennies among collectors, only 484,000 were minted. The initials VDB come from the designer Victor David Brenner. 1914-D: The Denver Mint produced fewer pennies this year, which increased their value significantly. 1922 No D: The Denver Mint was the only one to produce pennies this year, but some were mistakenly minted without the 'D' mint mark. Collectors highly seek after these. 1931 S: With just 866,000 produced, these pennies are worth quite a bit. However, many were hoarded, so they're not as rare in uncirculated conditions. 1970-S Small Date: This variation has a smaller and higher date than regular 1970 pennies, making it rare and valuable. Here's how to tell if your penny is rare and worth more than one cent, according to American Bullion: Check the Year: The minting year can tell much about a penny's value. Look for the years mentioned above. Inspect for Errors: Errors, like double dies or wrong metal use, can significantly increase a penny's value. Examine the coin closely for any inconsistencies. Look at the Mint Mark: The Mint Mark shows where a coin was minted. Some mints produced fewer pennies in specific years, increasing their rarity and value. As a result, the mint mark is usually located below the date. Assess the Condition: The better a coin's condition, the more valuable it is. A penny in 'mint' or 'near-mint' condition will fetch a higher price than one worn or damaged. Contributing: Mike Snider, George Petras, USA TODAY This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Pennies going away. What a rare penny might be worth
