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This will be very interesting...  |
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Jbuck- how about this? Better choice.  |
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I actually have a Wheat cent that I did this to (unknowingly, before I got into coin collecting) and it looks pretty good. I'll have to see if I can dig it out in the next day or so (1944, you can still make the date out on it and see the wheat reverse plain as day). I also went to Disney World in December. The coin machines are $.51 cents (cent + 2 quarters) and there are MANY, MANY, MANY different designs to choose from. Some machines are hand crank, some are electric. I also did several for me while I was there, and again, I'll try to dig mine out and post pics. |
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At one coin show I went to a few years ago (Boeing employees maybe?) they had one of the machines and a bowl of wheats. The kids (including me) could put one through as a souvenir. I don't remember what happened to mine, though.
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Numisma - could have been any of the PNW shows. The PNNA owns a machine and several of the area clubs have dies.
My former club (shout out to the Olympia Coin Club - 1st Thu of every month at the Lacey Senior Center, 6757 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey WA, 7:00 PM. or by mail at PO Box 2773, Olympia, WA 98507-2773 - tell 'em Tex sent you) used to squish at the Lacey Fun Fair, the club show, etc. PNNA itself would squish at the PNNA shows. I do remember seeing it at BECC but I don't recall who was doing it.
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I saw a fairly large Turban Head gold coin (I forgot its denomination) that has been smashed.
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On a trip last summer to DW in FL I brought the old fannypack full of quarters and copper LMC's. The hand crank seem to be the better squishers. The mechanical ones seem to shorten the squeeze quite a lot. The dime one is in space mountain's gift shop. It cost .75 and the dime. You would need to bring a small fortune to get all of the designs, as each machine has three designs and each ride, show or attraction had a machine. Nearly broke the bank at Epcot!  |
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I saw a fairly large Turban Head gold coin (I forgot its denomination) that has been smashed. Really?! I think I may have seen the same coin at a show 6 or 7 years ago, an 1805 half eagle that was almost completely flattened and wider than a silver dollar. |
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I thought I had a few more from Disney, and I may have just misplaced them, but these are the ones I could find. There's two Shield cents and one Memorial.   I can't find the wheat that was mashed, it must be in my other box, but I do know that it's a '44 and looks decent. Edited by boristhespider88
04/08/2016 01:23 am
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Well, I'm just about to leave on my squishin' mission. I have the coins listed above (with the 1893 instead of the 1900) as well as a clad dime, a 1942 merc, a 63-D quarter and three rolls of clad quarters (just to err on the side of caution).
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Good luck Numisma! I look forward to seeing how they all turn out!
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They have those machines at the Brookfield Zoo, Illinois. I take my grand daughter there a lot and she collects those. Seams like every exhibit they have has one of those machines.
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used to squish them on RR tracks - sometimes hard to find afterwards...
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I saw one of those machines the other day while walking in Boston. I have about a dozen of them from my cross country trips as a teenager. I will have to dig them out. I remember the zinc showed through on a few of them but others must have been the 95% copper.
Have a great time! Keep us posted.
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I think I may have seen the same coin at a show 6 or 7 years ago, an 1805 half eagle that was almost completely flattened and wider than a silver dollar. I think it was the same coin. The likelihood goes up because how many gold turban heads do you see that are squashed? |
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