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Valued Member
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i almost have 4 of those albums full of flattened pennies.
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Pillar of the Community
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Were they zinc or copper? I have no problem with donating a zincer to the penny roller. :)
I offered one up during our visit to Colorado this past weekend.
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United States
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I always try to get one at events I go too if there is a machine set up, Got them every year at Indianapolis during the years Formula 1 was racing and I was photographing the races. Got quite a few a various tourity places on travels around the US.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Pillar of the Community
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I always use a copper when I make an elongated cent, I used a zinc once and the copper plating split and then the zinc was exposed....just didn't look as nice.
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I'll definitely pardon your foul ... Because when I was a kid, we used to put coins on the railway tracks and then wait for the train to run-over them ... stupidly, I burnt my finger the first time I played the game (*ouch*) => apparently, there is lotsa energy in those steel wheels!  ... I wish that I'd kept one of those babies as a keep-sake |
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Pillar of the Community
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At least you didn't ruin 1 2-cent piece!
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Valued Member
United States
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Theirs a railroad running through my campus. Do you think if I left a few pennies down and came back the next day they would still be there?
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Do you think if I left a few pennies down and came back the next day they would still be there? From what I know about this, the cents don't usually stay on the tracks but if you look for them downstream from the train's travel direction, you'll find them. |
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Theirs a railroad running through my campus. Do you think if I left a few pennies down and came back the next day they would still be there? What kind of school campus are you talking about. If it is like mine was, the coin would vanish after you walked 10 feet away. And that is even if you stood right there. Try this though. Glue a Penny down to a RR track and let it dry. If your going to try it by me, don't glue it and use a Quarter.  I never even suspected that anyone would collect those ones from machines. I wonder how many I threw out before I had a Grandchild that wants them. Edited by just carl
12/22/2011 1:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Considering the attrition rate of circulating Zincolns, I'd say you actually saved these coins (and made them "collectible") by pressing them into elongated Cents.  Just don't squash any copper, folks!  |
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I'm with bman. zincolns make lousy elongates.
In the old days when it cost a dime to skoosh your cent, the machines had signs in them not to use steel cents. Never had one handy to see if the problem was it would damage the machine, or just to roll out correctly.
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Igleos,
Of the hundreds of coins I've placed on railroad tracks when I was a kid, only maybe 2 remained on the rails and I only found about 75% of what I placed and I had zero "competition" trying to locate them. Some ended up 50-100 feet up the tracks. I must say the Walker Half was the easiest to find on a bright sunny day. Wish I had kept a few. They have a lot of character afterwards!
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United States
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I had no idea that albums were available for these things.
Where do you get them?
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I had no idea that albums were available for these things. Where do you get them? We got ours at Walt Disney World. If the elongation machine is in a store (not outside, by a ride, or some other location), the albums are always on a rack nearby. |
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Posted 12/21/2011 2:15 pm
