Basically, the dime is the size of a nickel. The zinc and copper pennies are the size of quarters. The quarter is the size of a half-dollar. NOTE: It is not illegal to deface coins unless there is fraudulent intent.
ahhh, railroad coins... that stirs up some long-forgotten memories... as young teens in rural SW lower michigan in the early 1980s, my friends and I used to put coins on the tracks when we heard an approaching train; we lived near a very old and abandoned train depot.. after the train passed we'd go try to find some of the flattened coins... I used to have a bunch of those, mostly copper LMC...
We would do the same thing, circa; 1975. Still have a bunch of flattened coins somewhere in storage. Ultimately, we started taping the coins to the tracks before the train passed. Found alot more of them.
heck I remember squandering my old large canadian cents on the once a week train tracks as a very very young child (mainly because of the train horn) as I hid 100 yards or so away in the late 50's
Quote: .at 10 years old we devised the "taping the coin to the track" method and this helped greatly! Try it next time.
At 12 years old it was what we did with our change walking back from store if a train happened to be on its way down the track (didn't carry tape with me to the store). At 62 years old I'd probably be arrested for an attempted terrorist attack.......LOL.
Attempted Train Derailment. We would sometimes stack 3-4 coins in different arrangements to get cool multi-combos. In hindsight, that probably wasn't a great idea.
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Posted 03/08/2025 11:46 am
We would sometimes stack 3-4 coins in different arrangements to get cool multi-combos. In hindsight, that probably wasn't a great idea.
