Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 25, 2012

a penney for Mars’ thoughts?

The penny is to jerry-rig a blown fuse.

Googled William Hiesland. Nothing.

Coin collectors will now launch the first manned space craft to Mars. That is NASA goal. Send a stamp to Jupiter and the stamp collectors of the world (which I am one) will land and colonize the planet, power to the Nerds.

We coin collectors would never go to Mars for a plain 1909 penny. A 1909 S VDB penny maybe, but not a P.

Lost, I’ve never been lost. A might confused for a month or two….. Brian Kieth “The Mountain Men.”

I didn’t think anyone lived to 112 in the 18th century!

is it a lincoln penny or an indian head. the picture shows a lincoln ,but it doesn’t say which one.

that guy was 112 yrs old do the math i dont think so

@phritzg,You didn’t say that ‘occidentally’; it was pun intended, even! (Snagglepuss)

You cannot trust claims of age when there are no documents available. Sometimes a junior “such-and-such” would usurp the elder’s names for legitimate reasons (like evading inheritance taxes), making it look like the elder had lived an extraordinarily long life. Other times (like in the Caucasus in the 1910’s and 1920s) they simply lied about their ages starting as teenagers to “officially” be declared too old to be drafted.

Was the penny a 1909, 1909-S, 1909 VDB, or a 1909-S VDB?What grade was it? Inquiring numismatists want to know.

so William Hiseland fought in a battle at the age of 89 in an era when the average life expectancy was 36? And lived to be 112? Right…