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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah it is cool.... but the only Hobo coins I could see collecting would be those actually made by the hobos from the depression era coins. Those to me are the truly collectible hobo coins. The rest of the coins are people/artists hoping to make a buck...in this case literally.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yeah, these are just novelty pieces- not history. They sure are interesting, though.
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Pillar of the Community
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Ha! It looks like Billy Mays.
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Moderator
 United States
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New Member
United States
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Check on the U.S. Mint website for new rules and the last one is that melting or changing /defacing pennies or nickels is now consider crimes and will be prosecuted by the govt. I wonder if this is what would be included.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The melt ban on cents and nickels is strictly a preventative measure to ensure that those denominations are not withdrawn and melted so quickly as to create coinage shortages(similar to the ban on melting silver coins in the 1960s). Counterstamping, elongating, hobo-izing, and other alterations are perfectly legal as long as it is not done with fraudulent intent.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Technically those elongated penny machines are illegal, but the government isn't going to waste time, money, and resources to try to shutdown all of them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Technically those elongated penny machines are illegal, but the government isn't going to waste time, money, and resources to try to shutdown all of them There is an elongated penny roll machine at the Mount Rushmore monument, a government owned and run National Park. |
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Pillar of the Community
Israel
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Oh, wow, I really like this one  . |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Technically those elongated penny machines are illegal, but the government isn't going to waste time, money, and resources to try to shutdown all of them.
no, they arent. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Those are art - modern art - and the artist is quite good. Thanks for sharing.
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United States
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Technically those elongated penny machines are illegal... No, they are not. |
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Posted 10/05/2013 1:11 pm
