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.
It took 10-14 hours a day for three months to stick all of the pennies to the wooden frame and the work was eventually called, 'Helping Mom One Penny at a Time'.
Speaking of the work Martich said: "I wanted to share the message that anyone can do this, you just have to start somewhere. What matters isn’t how much you make, but how much you save.
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