Artist Jacqueline Lou Skaggs found a new purpose for finding pennies: for art! Pennies have become the perfect canvas for tiny oil paintings in this series. According to the artist:

Initially these coins were going to be spent- nestled with other coins in an exchange of goods. Or tossed back to the sidewalks from whence they came. Nice thoughts. However, these works remain hoarded as art rather than currency or discarded, valueless copper.

 

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