Principal Vance was standing by the long stainless steel prep counter with a blue clipboard and a red ballpoint.

He laid his pen on the counter and picked up one of the rolls.

He turned it over in his palm, checking the folded paper ends with his thumb.

“Fifty pennies a roll,” Principal Vance said.

“Fifty cents a roll.

So that’s eighteen hundred thirty rolls to get to nine hundred fifteen dollars.”

“We wrapped forty of them last night,” I said.

“Every coin was scrubbed with degreaser and plastic scrub brushes.”