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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
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 Posted - 01/19/2008 : 20:55:46
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The Following article is copyrighted. I have sought and received permission from the publisher to reproduce it on my site and here on realcent forums only. Reproduction of this article anywhere else is a breach of copyright.
This article first appeared in the November 2007 issue of The Australian Coin And Banknote Magazine. I would like to personally thank the editor Mr. Mulhall and the author Dr Rodgers for their kind permission to reproduce this article.
Subscriptions and backorders of the magazine can be purchased from:
The Australian Coin and Banknote Magazine,
P.O Box 6313,
North Ryde,
N.S.W 2113
Australia.
auscoinbank@bigpond.com
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 21:01:23
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| I smash a copper penny every time we visit a zoo. The cashiers are always willing to look for copper cents for me. |
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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
136 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 21:11:02
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We really miss out on all the fun of having copper in our currency here. :-(
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 21:34:40
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Cheer up, you got the copper mines instead. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 21:38:16
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My girlfriend collects these! She has hundreds of them. We've travelled far and wide to add to her collection.
At the bottom of this website You must be logged in to see this link. you can find a link to locations of pressed penny machines around the world. There're even some in Australia, it looks like. 
And if you're going to elongate a penny, make sure you choose a shiny, red copper cent.
One of my few numismatic regrets I have is once having the chance to buy an original World's Columbian Exposition pressed penny from 1893. I passed on it. $10 seemed to high at the time. Now it seems a bargain.
Great post, copperbullion! |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
136 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2008 : 21:44:06
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Originally posted by fiatboy
You must be logged in to see this link.
Thanks fiatboy... That site looks very interesting too! |
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Miser-stro
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 01/20/2008 : 00:58:56
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| Hmmm.....I wonder how many "Key Dates" got smashed back in the day???? |
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2008 : 11:30:01
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Originally posted by Miser-stro
Hmmm.....I wonder how many "Key Dates" got smashed back in the day????
If any key dates were elongated that makes the surviving coins all the more valuable.
Its like the baseball card lament-
"If only my mother hadn't thrown out my baseball cards I'd be a millionare today"
The trouble with that arguement today is so many save baseball cards and so few get thrown away that there is a glut of cards on the market. The fact so many old cards were thrown away is what makes the surviving old cards valuable, not necessarily their age.
If all the key date pennies survived they wouldn't be worth as much as they are now. |
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2008 : 12:59:17
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Thanks for the good read copperbullion. I have been collecting these for a while. I am one of those card carrying members the story refers to. But my membership number is 3600 something.
and now a shameless plug
I am also one one those manufactures. I do not have my own machine, I design and draw the art then send it to a diemaker/roller who produces it for me. There is a lot of competition from the roller machines so I market it completly different than everybody else in the world.
Here is a link to my wholesale website: You must be logged in to see this link.
This is a link to my retail website: You must be logged in to see this link. |
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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
136 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2008 : 16:21:24
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| Thanks Dan, I've bookmarked your site, I'll go right through it later. |
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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
136 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2008 : 16:38:44
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| Great site! Maybe you could make a realcent smashed penny to sell to members of this forum! |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2008 : 17:23:16
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| How much would one of these machines cost? |
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 11:27:47
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Originally posted by Tourney64
How much would one of these machines cost?
$3000 - $6500 |
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