1909 Lincoln penny on Mars (on the Curiosity rover)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16131.html

This news isn't exactly new, but I came across this and just look at that! This coin was minted just 6 years after the first powered human flight (1903 - Wright brothers), and now here it is on Mars, the furthest planet humans have explored in such detail so far. They're using it for camera calibration.

Must make for a lot of history.

Now we need to find a way to clean Martian dust of coins, whatever next

If that coin ever comes back to earth the value is going to skyrocket!!

It's the first instalment of our government's Martian aid program.

The Mars economy is so bad that a USA 1c coin flown in from earth is now the most valuable coin on the planet.  

Quote: neilithicThe Mars economy is so bad that a USA 1c coin flown in from earth is now the most valuable coin on the planet.  

And the only coin.

Quote: neilithicThe Mars economy is so bad that a USA 1c coin flown in from earth is now the most valuable coin on the planet.  

You've probably already been reported for being racist to Martians.

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Quote: neilithicThe Mars economy is so bad that a USA 1c coin flown in from earth is now the most valuable coin on the planet.  

You've probably already been reported for being racist to Martians.

They're only rats on there, c'mon. And a rabbit. And a blue candy wrapper... anyway.

There is a statue of Elvis Presley. Rats didn't make that!

I think I've seen a fox, too...