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I am currently visiting San Antonio Texas, where my son will be married on Friday.  I took a tour of the Alamo. A great bit of history. I could not force myself to buy the fake souvenir coins,  but I did put two US one cent coins into the machines and made elongated cents with the image of the Alamo and Davie Crockett..  Was I bad?  rggoodie
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Bad...Bad Santa!  . Congrats on your sons nuptuals! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Normal practice in many places. At a zoo by me they have those machines all over the place. Costs a Half Dollar to make a pennie into a thing with an animal on them.
They are busy almost all the time. Better than melting them down for just metal, maybe.
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There are collectors of those elongated cents. John1  |
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I actually collect them. Picked up some interesting ones. Never fail to put a penny in when I'm near one of those machines. Nothing wrong, unless you used a key date coin.
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Bad? No. I "reconfigured" more than a handful of (not so pretty) Zincolns at Walt Disney World this year. My three year old son is collecting them now, my wife even got him a book to keep them in. He loves putting them in the slots and flipping through the pages. Hey, I will take whatever interest he has in "album building" and hope for the best.  |
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Was I bad? Depends. If you used an SVDB and a 14-D then yes. If you used a couple 2011's from pocket change then no you did future collectors a favor by helping to reduce the surplus. |
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i almost have 4 of those albums full of flattened pennies.
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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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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.
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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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At least you didn't ruin 1 2-cent piece!
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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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Posted 12/21/2011 10:09 am
