December 6th, 2009: I bought the coins that were in the Green Party of Santa Clara County's donation jar for cash value. Merriam took the wheat penny, which was about as old as the oldest quarter, giving me one of the ones listed above for it. Most of those coins came in when we tabled at the Holiday Peace Fair in San Jose. There were lots of local craft items for sale there. There were also quite a few fair trade items of various types. The chicken is sitting on the oldest quarter from the batch.