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United States
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A fraternity brother, an art major, would cut the obverse image from dimes and make jewelry from them. This was back in the early 60's so Mercury dimes were still around. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I still have a bunch stuffed into my old pettet gun to get a little more "umph"...
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United States
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A penny for your thoughts,got a $10 bill worth,read this start to finish all 7 pages and no one mentioned anything about preserving pennies in a canning jar with olive oil.momma put up a few jars, over the years I did a few,they look interesting on the shelf.I opened a bottle dated 1949,washed and dried the coins and they look good as new.
I will now sort them to see what treasures were in the jar.My eyes are getting old it's harder to read dates so I think maybe I'll just separate,count and roll em up. gasman96
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I lived with a goldsmith and did work making jewelry and molds, wire etc etc etc for him in the workshop in our basement. I once put a few pennies through the rolling mill just to see how they would come out. I love copper! The Elongated shapes that came out look great for copper jewelry. I only did a few pennies though as you aren't supposed to do things like that with coins. I had the rolling mill at hand, some pennies ... irresistable  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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only odd thing I ever did with coins was try to scrape a penny on the floor until the whole thing became a silver color. tried to scrape off all of the copper on the zincolns.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I did the railway track thing a lot but I lived about 100 feet from the track back then. but in 7th grade I was taught to put a coin in some sort of acid and watch it disappear or get really small lol that was in the mid 60's so I'm sure I melted a few silver coins away too lol but what a way to watch inflation or would we call it deflated ?
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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penny man. "Is wading into a wishing well to get a Mercury dime odd?" Definitely. I hope you put it's value into the well in exchange. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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OK....just added $225 in pennies to the back of my Cub Cadet for traction so I can plow snow...let's hope the 5 gallon bucket doesn't break !
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Valued Member
United States
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"Beam me aboard Scottie"maybe we should put together a treasure chest of altered coins for future alien visitors to find.Wonder what they would think of the weird objects? Yes I do believe there is life out there somewhere. gasman96
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cheech and Chong once had a Skit where a kid was Taken to the Doctors because he kept sticking things up his nose like coins and Bullets...
....Guess you had to be there!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"Definitely. I hope you put it's value into the well in exchange."
well, I put its face value into the well.
Edited by penny man
01/28/2011 7:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:Is wading into a wishing well to get a Mercury dime odd? Your kidding. I thought everyone does that. And for even pennies. Quote:
One of the only things I learned in my College Chemistry class was if you put a penny in 6 N nitric acid for 10 seconds it will dissolve and become the size of a dime. Worked in pay phones :) I know alot of you guys don't know what a pay phone is. Sorry
And here is something you probably didn't know about those pay phones. The operator really could not tell what you were putting in the slots. electronics were not that far advanced. They would only tell by the sound of the coin making a tone so they knew by that tone what you put in. Many AT&T people knew that so they carried a set of tuning forks and to make any calls, they would put in a coin to get the operator, and when the operator said please deposit $2 or something they would just plunk away on the tuning forks. All gone now with moderazation. Anyone wondering if the Feds are monitoring this post? Edited by just carl
01/28/2011 8:33 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I was at the Trevi Fountain in Rome a long time ago. I reached into my pocket for a coin to toss into the Fountain. Horror of horrors! I didn't have even one coin.!
Idea!
I wrote an IOU on the back of a ticket and tossed that in instead.
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United States
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sel, have you ever paid your debt?
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