Someone Tried To Make A Dime

Well, we thought it was. Back in junior high there was a study hall class in an auditorium with a concrete floor. Kids would put a penny under their shoe and drag it back and forth to make it thinner, then spend a few minutes rubbing the edges on the floor to make it smaller. I think the coke machines back then were 15 cents, so you could get a coke and a nickel back for 2 cents. What else is there to do in study hall? Study?

The other junior high discovery was that Mexican 5 centavo coins were almost exactly the same size as a dime and would work in any vending machine.

Very interesting find!

For what it is worth, a dime in 1936 is equivalent to about $2.40 today.

Could have been a desperate soul at a bus stop who needed a pack of smokes.

nice 1 cent dime

I've had this medicine bottle around here with these in it since the mid 1970s that I had gotten from my Dad. He worked for the same company in the Pittsburgh area from mid 1950s until cancer got the better of him in 2000. The company put all kinds of coin operated devices in bars/pubs/clubs/lodges etc. The big money was in gambling and these were probably pulled from gambling devices (probably not slot machines as they had a glass window showing last coin played). They used all sorts of machines to sell all sorts of "tickets" until the law caught up with them, and then moved onto another. machine. There's also a couple of nickel sized slugs made from keys.

Ah memories....I was one of those kids. Later Hill's Drug Store moved the Coke machine behind their register due to these "dimes" I believe.