My elongated pennies from Australia, Hong Kong, and US. Technically the ones from Australia and HK not pennies since they use a copper blank that's already inside the machine. I have a couple of elongated Canadian nickels too.
These fall into the category of something picked up on vacation too. Except for the two Canadian ones (which my mom went to with her friends because my classes have started), it's me and my siblings who mashed these.
The random off-centre one was from Australia, someone left it on top of the machine.
Two smashed 10-rappen coins from Switzerland - one showing Spiez Castle and another an electric locomotive, and two smashed US cents from St Louis Union Station, Missouri:
Three smashed UK pennies from various attractions in Edinburgh, and a New Zealand 5-cent piece from the ferry that crosses between the North and South Islands. For some reason, Edinburgh seems to have the highest concentration of smashed penny machines in the British Isles!
I expected that there was more of these elongated pennies. Apparently not everyone likes them as much as I do.
And here's a couple of play money coins. They got the size and coin alignment right, even though this was bought in Indonesia.
I've given practically all of my play money away. I used to have a big stack of play Rupiah when I was a kid - I recently gave them away to my mom's tutoring place (it's mostly for primary school kids) so the teachers there can use them to teach money to the students or give them away as a "gift" if they do well.
I'm pretty surprised how far play money has gotten. Mine was really crude, plastic, and they had cartoon characters like Spongebob or Barbie or stuff like that on them so they look nothing like real money. The ones now are paper and they actually LOOK like money, nothing is pasted on the design to make it obvious that they're play money.
The last time I asked, the kids don't even want my play money.
These are 20th-century British toy coins. The top left-hand two are plastic - the 3d piece came from a toy cash register I had as a kid! The others are cardboard and were found by my Mom many years ago in a tin at the school where she was a teacher.
Hi, this is a coin-like button, it is made of silver (billon). It is from Buenos Aires (Argentina) and they were common during second half of 19 century. They are named gauchos buttons. They used , as model, coins of (CAROLUS) spanish kings Charles III or IV.
OBV: LABOR IMPROB. OMNIA VINCIT 1878 REV: HISPAN ET IND R BOT DE PLA (Boton de plata =silver button)
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