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<table align="center" bgcolor="" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td><table align="center" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="articleByline"> By Matthew D. LaPlante
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="left"> Grant Petersen may not have broken the bank when he withdrew 8,200 pennies to pay a traffic ticket, but the Manti man appears to have broken the will of the Sanpete County Justice Court.
The citation Petersen received in November for driving with a broken headlight has been dismissed. And the $82 bucket of pennies Petersen delivered to the court to pay the fine has been returned.
A sheriff's deputy took the bucket back to its owner a few hours after Petersen declined to appear for a hearing on his case.
"He didn't say anything, just gave back the pennies and drove off, and that was it," said Petersen's father, Benton Petersen.
The court initially had ruled the payment was unacceptable.
Petersen, a 30-year-old Wal-Mart clerk, argued that federal law gave him the right to use whatever legal tender he wanted.
Though the court didn't want his cold, hard - and heavy - cash, Petersen is hoping someone else might. On Tuesday, he put the bucket of copperheads for sale on eBay, the auction Web site. Bidding is set to end Saturday.
Petersen, whose story made national headlines refers to the bucket as "The pennies heard around the world."
"Now you can purchase the actual pennies and bucket which were rejected by Sanpete County," Petersen wrote on his eBay advertisement. "Buy now!"
But thus far, Petersen's come-on seems to have dissuaded any would-be buyers, probably because of his asking price: $25,000.
That would be 2.5 million pennies, if Petersen were willing to accept them in exchange for his bucket of contentious coins.
His ad, however, indicates that only checks, money orders or credit cards will be accepted.
The Salt Lake Tribune
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="left"> Grant Petersen may not have broken the bank when he withdrew 8,200 pennies to pay a traffic ticket, but the Manti man appears to have broken the will of the Sanpete County Justice Court.
The citation Petersen received in November for driving with a broken headlight has been dismissed. And the $82 bucket of pennies Petersen delivered to the court to pay the fine has been returned.
A sheriff's deputy took the bucket back to its owner a few hours after Petersen declined to appear for a hearing on his case.
"He didn't say anything, just gave back the pennies and drove off, and that was it," said Petersen's father, Benton Petersen.
The court initially had ruled the payment was unacceptable.
Petersen, a 30-year-old Wal-Mart clerk, argued that federal law gave him the right to use whatever legal tender he wanted.
Though the court didn't want his cold, hard - and heavy - cash, Petersen is hoping someone else might. On Tuesday, he put the bucket of copperheads for sale on eBay, the auction Web site. Bidding is set to end Saturday.
Petersen, whose story made national headlines refers to the bucket as "The pennies heard around the world."
"Now you can purchase the actual pennies and bucket which were rejected by Sanpete County," Petersen wrote on his eBay advertisement. "Buy now!"
But thus far, Petersen's come-on seems to have dissuaded any would-be buyers, probably because of his asking price: $25,000.
That would be 2.5 million pennies, if Petersen were willing to accept them in exchange for his bucket of contentious coins.
His ad, however, indicates that only checks, money orders or credit cards will be accepted.
The Salt Lake Tribune
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