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Dan52
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 Posted - 05/09/2009 : 03:08:17
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On three different occasions, I have run across a roll of dimes that has a penny in it. A penny that has been ground down on the sides to equal the size of a dime. I got these in fed rolls.
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Nickelless
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Posted - 05/17/2009 : 04:46:24
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| I had a penny that was ground down and weighed very close to what a dime weighs not too long ago in a Machine rolled roll. I actually took it back to the coin machine as I didn't want it and was curious to see what would happen. Surprisingly it took it as a dime (this was actually one of my very very few dime dumps in a machine that I didn't get any dimes that registered as a penny) |
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misteroman
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USA
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Posted - 05/17/2009 : 09:20:16
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Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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keys
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:33:48
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I had heard that one reason for the reduced size of a penny was when a dime was actually used for purchases (pay phones, laundromats, etc.)
The penny was reduced in size to fool the pay phone/washing machine to accept it as a dime.
Do you remember what the date of the reduced sized penny was? |
I change with the times-
but like silver coins found in your change
I stay the same.
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Will The United States of America end up as the New Imperial Rome? |
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:59:40
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| The size of the cents changed in 1856/1857. |
Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people, to the house of the daughters of Zion, to the help of the people of the God of this Land even Jesus Christ. |
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TheJonasCollegeFund
Penny Collector Member
USA
381 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2009 : 17:10:18
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| I'vr found 4 or 5 dimes in fed penney rolls...but not the other way around. |
MD Totals: Started Aug16th.(Updated Sept10th) 819 clad/cu coins/$41.13
Quarters-78
Dimes-122+1 silver roosie (1957)
Nickels-81 (56d,53d)
Copper Pennies-147
Zinc Pennies-386
Wheats-5 (36,36,46,46d,50d) |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2009 : 14:40:23
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Since making this post, I have opened a roll of 49 dimes........and a worn down penny. See pic in next post....
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2009 : 14:50:14
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vrbsroma
Penny Collector Member
394 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2009 : 10:56:40
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Originally posted by Dan52
Looks quite intentional. I've heard of people using metal washers in pay phones instead of quarters, too.
My two cents are always copper! |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2009 : 15:16:04
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| I have found another penny in a dime roll since the post above. |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2009 : 20:39:11
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And here's another.......
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AGgressive Metal
Administrator
USA
1937 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2009 : 21:30:15
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And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world.
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2009 : 21:35:24
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Originally posted by AGgressive Metal
You really have to be hard up for 9 cents to beat down a penny rim like that.
Maybe they do it just to see if they can pass it as a dime? Who knows....
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 05/29/2009 : 22:27:26
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Seen one just like that before. It got rejected out of the coin counter. Probably still in my other pants pocket too. |
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Amazing what people will do for a dime.
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