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Friday, April 17, 2026
In my home office, parked in a corner of my desktop, I keep a large mug which I use for coins which I empty from my pockets each night. Over the course of time, the mug accumulates enough silver and copper that I pour it out on the desk, and insert the coins into coin wrappers.
A couple of weeks ago I was filling up a dime wrapper when one of the coins didn’t quite fit. After employing a bit of fruitless coercion, I took a close look at the coin. You see it above, alongside a genuine dime on the right.
The coin isn’t actually a dime, and it isn’t American. It’s a Polish 20-groszy piece. 100 groszys equal one zloty. A zloty, nowadays, is worth $3.75, which means that this coin is worth about 80 cents – 8 dimes.
Which does me no good, of course. I can’t redeem it at our bank (unless I nefariously forced it into the wrapper with the dimes and gave it to a cashier). But I was raised by a dad and mom who insisted on absolute honesty, including with every aspect of money. And the reason they felt so strongly about this was what they read in the Bible.
The Bible knows that money is very important. That’s why it gives lots of advice about it. Check out some verses Mom and Dad knew well, at the link below: