The owners of an Illinois pub famous for the pennies adorning its oak bar have replaced the decades-old relic with a new bar top covered in 10,250 pennies. Tom and Diana Sutton, owners of the Price Street Pub in Springfield, said the first penny bar was installed by the former owners in 1977. They decided it was time to replace it after three decades of wear and tear. The Suttons began work on the new bar in 2008 by ordering 10,250 new pennies from the U.S. Treasury. It was a long and complicated process, but when the shiny new 2008 pennies finally arrived, they were laid out on the new bar top in a uniform style with the help of employees, customers and friends. It took three days and lots of Elmer’s glue. The bar top was then covered in a coat of polyurethane. Tom snuck in three 1977 pennies, a tribute to a deceased friend. The old coin-lined surface was broken up; most of it was given away to customers.
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