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i thought it was a crime (technically) to do this to money. like I said I dont care, but someone might. but as to no one being charged, you have a point. that would have made all of those machines illegal that you put a cent in and turn the crank to get a souvenir flattened cent. I dont see them anymore, but I wonder if they will modify them to flatten nickles?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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jdmern, Have at you! (Dance of Illusion background music)  nala, they already have mash-a-nickel machines in Canada.  |
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Canada
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the machines in Canada that flatten 1 cent pieces or 5 cent pieces or 25 cent pieces don't actually flatten a coin they just flatten a blank, that's how they got around the law. In the states though they are everywhere and flatten the actual coin
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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These are actual nickels. The Casa Loma one is a cupronickel one that you can barely see the remnants of a Pedery-Hunt portrait, year unknown (my mom made this, not me, so I don't know what she used). The Toronto Zoo one is a 2011 nickel, and you can clearly see the outline of "5 cents", the beaver, "CANADA", and the date on the other side. If you look hard enough on the shark side you can see the RCM logo, "REGINA", "ELIZABETH II", and some of the rim beads. The mashed "pennies" I got from Australia and Hong Kong are copper blanks. Edited by Altaira
02/16/2015 5:13 pm
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 Canada
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Interesting that a 2011 5-cent could be deformed like that, while keeping the multi-ply plated surfaces intact...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Canada
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Unlike this one I tried with a Shield cent, and the next one is a 19X6 Memorial zincoln. I think this was mashed right side first. The plating on the back is intact.  The zinc on this one is starting to react. You can see the grey under the beads at the very bottom. The plating on the back isn't intact, I'll get a scan later.  I can't get better pics that that now but the plating is definitely split open. |
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Canada
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I have one of these from a trip to Disneyland when I was young, can't recall if it was a real coin or where it is.
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Valued Member
Canada
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the ones I had seen at west ed cost you $1.01 with the loonie disappearing and the cent being returned mashed. I suppose they could say the machines are to be used with blanks, but its tough to sell when the machine says right on it to insert $1 and 1c. yes I find the zincolns interesting as the mashing design is copper with zinc trails,(at least the one I have)
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Here are all 4 of them.   Upon closer inspection the plating did split slightly. If you look hard you can see the remnants of "ELIZ" on the top beads! I wish I have better picture-taking thing other than my scanner because some of the obverse letters are visible in the field.  You can't really see it so I highlighted it in red. There's a (very) slight split on the back of the dorsal fin, top tail fin, NTO, and the first gill.  The little bit of brown you see on the left reverse is also split plating, I think.  This conversation has gone from drawing on paper money to mashing coins... Should I start a new topic instead? |
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Should I start a new topic instead?  Feel free to start a Canadian rolled coins thread... you might want to search the main coin forum to see if there is an existing thread on that topic.. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Forum Kid
Canada
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when did they start using blanks instead of business strike circulating currency!
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Canada
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I'll start a new thread in the exonumia forum later, because these aren't really money. VICK, I think it's because there is no circulating currency that is of good size to be elongated. The ones I have from the US and Hong Kong are from blanks. Because if they supply blanks it cuts into their profit of having to have blanks and then having to put it in the machine. If not it's just going to say "out of blanks" and then nobody can use the machine. Back on topic... Quote:
LOL why is it always Laurier that gets defaced. Not always.   |
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In the wake of Leonard Nimoy's passing, "Spocking" the five dollar bill has received national news coverage. That is pretty cool! |
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ya I think I might make a few more spocks
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