Honey What?

Google "coin shrinking" and you can find a description of the process and a gallery with lots of pictures. These guys charge up a huge capacitor and then discharge it quickly through a coil, producing an enormous electro-magnetic field. This procedure apparently has some serious industrial applications but someone also discovered that it can be used to shrink coins. A coin treated this way will have a smaller diameter but the thickness will increase - there shouldn't be any loss of metal.

I bought a bunch of these in the Wisconsin Dells about 9 yrs ago. I have 3 1972 Ikes
3 1964 Pennys
1 1974 Kennedy
1 1978 Nickel
1 1988 Walker

I've got a set of these that I won in a pay it forward contest. Includes:
1972 Ike, 1974 Kennedy, 1938 Buffalo, 1914 Mercury, 1978 quarter and 1964 Lincoln Cent. Of course, they are not real, they didn't even make a 1914 Mercury dime...but they are all pretty cool.

Jim

Many of these are not created by using a real coin. There are sets of "mini" coins sold as novelties . I have a set around here someplace. They are made by novelty companies and include denominations from cents to dollars.

There are a few people actually using the electrical process described but most if not all of the "mini" coins encountered will be from one of these sets made outside the Mint.

I don't know if the piece shown above is one of the "Frankenstein" like creations or one of the novelty coins:-)

Thanks,
Bill

I found a miniature Mercury dime in live Auctioneers. They call it "the Lords prayer coin" prayer on the smallest coin. This coin was made for the 1893 World's Fair dated 1914 although the Mercury dime didn't arrive until 1916.

I learned something cool poking around that site. Did you know the was such a thing as negative and positive lightning? Positive lightning very rarely hits the ground and is much more powerful. Here's a photo of positive lightning. I can't argue, I looked at the photo, and I'm positive that's lightning.

Do you think the person that took that photo had to go change?

that gives new meaning to the term "small change"