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Frugi
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USA
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 Posted - 09/27/2006 : 21:23:45
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I work for A.E. Schmidt Billiard Company in Saint Louis Missouri.
If any member of this forum wants to send me a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
A.E. Schmidt Co.
720 Koeln Avenue
Saint Louis MO 63111
I will send back free of a charge a pre1982 Lincoln pressed penny with our company logo and web site on it(one per household). AESCO has been in business since 1850 and been family owned and operated ever since. We build and sell custom billiard tables. In the 1930's through the 60's we also made many different trade tokens for bars and taverns all over the country.
Be sure to include a 3 x 5 index card asking for a free pressed penny; also write on index card ATTN: Andrew
A cost of a two stamps for a piece of history, not bad considering most places charge $0.51 to $1.00 for a pressed penny.
Please visit my company's Website, it is really cool and has a history page that is worth reading.
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 09/27/2006 : 22:16:18
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Would you press, say, 10,000 pennies if I mail them to you? You coulkd keep some of them, to cover the cost of shipping them back.
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Frugi
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 09/27/2006 : 22:38:45
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I can look into it. However, I would like to keep this as a limit of one pressed penny per household. In addition as of right now the engraver who engraved my die ring still has posession of it. He will continue to own it until I pay $100.00 per slot for an additional 3 slots on my die ring. Once this has been done he will mail my ring back to me and I can put it on my pressed penny machine then roll all I want. In the pressed penny world most die rings will take 4 images/designs
of image to be pressed onto a cent. I only had one designed when I purchased the die ring. To be cost efficient I will allow him to keep the ring until I come up with 3 additional designs that way I dont have to mail it back and forth. It is worth the one time charge of $100.00 per engraving because he does fabulous work. Anytime I need more pressed cents he sends me as many as I want for about $0.20 each, all pre1982, I usually get about 200 every couple of months. Until I get my die ring back this is the only I can get the pennies. So for now I can't handle large quantities of pressed pennies; just small amounts-but it is really good advertising for the company, and kinda fun if you like coins/tokens.
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Posted - 10/04/2006 : 10:27:40
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I think the board is messed up, there's a post in this topic not showing up. Maybe when I post this it'll show up.
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LarryB
New Member
Canada
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Posted - 01/08/2007 : 10:03:07
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Hi Frugi,
Just joined up to-day and saw your post. Sometimes I hate living in Canada, especially when kool deals like yours come along and all I've gotta do is send a SASE for some awesome offer. Trouble with that, is the freakin' postal system won't let me use our stamps on SASE's leaving your country. Man that bugs the dirt outta me! Oh well, sometimes life's a beizitch!
Awefully nice of you to make such a sweet offer to everyone here though. Right neighborly of you there buddy.
Have a big one...
Gettin' Rich... Slowly
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Frugi
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 01/08/2007 : 15:02:25
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LarryB private message me with your address and I will send you a pressed penny on me.
Real Eyes Realize Real Lies
Buy Less. Work Less. Live More.
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tmaring
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 21:19:28
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Originally posted by Canadian_Nickle
Would you press, say, 10,000 pennies if I mail them to you? You could keep some of them, to cover the cost of shipping them back.
The offer to send a free counterstamped coin was a generous one. To ask for 10,000 examples is a bit... inconsiderate. I am just down the road from Frugi... down here in Arkansas, though I do not know him. However, I frequently do counterstamps on coins so I think I can offer a perspective. My counterstamps on 2006 US nickels tend toward political slogans rather than commercial advertising... but from having done about 3000 of them I can attest that the making of such counterstamps is quite a lot of work. Leaving the die-work aside... even when I set up a press specifically for the task, including an ejection mechanism... the fastest I can go is about 10 coins per minute. Most of the time is spent in picking up each coin and turning it to face the right way on the die. Your request for 10,000 counterstamps would doom some poor fool to something on the order of two long hard days of manual labor. They are making the coins for advertising their billiard table business... which is a revival of an old and time-honored tradition. It has mostly fallen out of favor because of how much plain hard sweat it takes to do it. You need to honor that sweat! Somebody hoarding the counterstamped coins runs counter to their purpose as they then remain hidden from potential customers. If you want them in order to hoard you should offer at LEAST 10 pennies for each one returned. 25 would be a better offer.
Just my two cents
Tom Maringer
Shire Post Mint
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