TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Tallahassee-based artist and content creator known for gag gifts like the “thnickel” (a thick nickel) is launching a protest against the U.S. Mint over their plan to auction off the final “Omega pennies.”
Legboot, a play on “bootleg,” is launching a fundraiser in an attempt to purchase one of the final sets of pennies and return them to circulation. That way, he said, any collector or everyday person might own a rare penny.
The protest is quirky, no doubt, but also serious. There’s a lot of work to do. So far, the GoFundMe has raised just over $1,100, but one thousand of that is from Legboot himself…