If You Wanted To Know About Squashed Pennies And The Law

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grovey Valued Member United States 440 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 8:26 pm Look here http://www.squished.com/featuresnew...res_101.html Report this Post to the Staff

Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 9:39 pm Gil, thanks for the reference. I used to put cents on the railroad tracks as a kid. Biggest problem I had was finding the remains after the train went by; sometimes they'd fly many dozens of yards away. Recently, to reinforce the legality of altered cents, I saw a stamping machine in a National Park Visitor Center. Trust me, if any Federal Agency is sensitive to public opinion, it's the US National Park Service and if there were any law against such a machine, that thing would have been out of there in a Yankee second! (I usta work for USNPS; I came close to being hung, drawn, and quartered for having an innocuous bumper sticker on my GSA vehicle stating "Eat moose; 10,000 wolves can't be wrong". BTW, is it squished or squashed? And why do we call them pennies when they are cents? (Can it be we haven't quite escaped our British ancestry, coin-wise?) Fred Report this Post to the Staff
RenaL Pillar Of The Community Turkey 1205 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 9:51 pm It must be different from country to country, as far as I know, in Bulgaria and in Turkey, it is illegal to intentionally "harm" legal tender. Of course noone really cares about small pocket change, but for example if some character would light his cigarette with a banknote in the movie, that may give someone a headache. Edited by RenaL 06/18/2006 9:51 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Buffaloboy5 Pillar of the Community United States 604 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 9:57 pm Well since most Americans derive from Britain you would say "penny" because it has more apeal to you but I always call it a cent Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 10:02 pm In for a penny, in for a pound. A penny saved is a penny earned; (from Ben Franklin, written before the US became the US and still used British money). That's all the penny prose I can think of at the moment. Report this Post to the Staff
Tpatna Pillar of the Community United States 1626 Posts	Posted 06/18/2006 10:34 pm This answers a question I always wondered....Thanks Report this Post to the Staff
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