I have this penny and it appears to have been squeezed on opposite sides. I've came across this before on quite a few coins. Always the older ones. Any thoughts?
Do the damaged edges show tool marks? They may have been used for utilitarian purposes in the past. Still, just a PMD cent.
I know people did that in the past, not very smart. I have two power panels in my house one with breakers and one with glass fuses. Never had a problem with glass fuses. I replaced most of the wiring in my house and still use the old fuse box. In the 40 years I lived in my house I think I changed 3 fuses. However, I would like to point out as I rewired my house I also up graded all my wiring to a heavier than require gauge. I've seen what can happen when you try to pull to much power thru wire even if it is rated for it. I was told over kill the wire size and undersize the fuses. In other words if use number 12 wire connect it to a 15 amp fuse. And add more circuits to spread the load. If you blow a fuse find out way it blew before replacing it. Glass fuses don't fail without a reason. This is not like a circuit breaker that can fail for no reason. The down side of a glass fuse is that people tend to put a larger fuses than they should if one blows. That's a big problem and a major fire hazard. Sticking a penny in a fuse socket is almost a guaranteed fire hazard.
" Sticking a penny in a fuse socket is almost a guaranteed fire hazard. " That's for sure. In the 1960's, my dad found out the hard way. A round glass fuse blew and my dad wanted to put a penny behind it. I warned him not to, but I was just a 12 yr old kid, and he said he's done it many times, "What can it hurt?". So he did it. We had not even walked away from the fuse box before clouds of heavy black smoke were coming out of the garage attic. We pulled the box handle to shut the power off and ran to the garage to put out the fire. Luckily for us, once the juice was off the fire just went out. He went up in the attic and found a short-circuited wire, repaired it, replaced the burnt fuse with the proper fuse and everything was fine. A very valuable lesson was learned with the only damage being some singed insulation in the attic and some singed pride in my Dad.
@Hookman As a remodel carpenter I have seen some fires in walls and attics. That I can't believe didn't burn the whole house down. 2x's burnt half way thru. spliced live wires buried in insulation, without wire nuts. Nails going thru 12-2 romex, you name it! My friend used to use bubble gum wrapper, wrapped around his truck fuses when they grounded out. That was until his truck caught fire!
