someone tried to "make" an error coin,. here are my examples that vendors tried to pass off as error coins (they should of known better!!!) in both instances, ebay refund and they told me to keep them (go figure) though i have returned another 3 or so that they wanted back 9presumedly to try and sell again)
dating yourself on that comment, i know what it means, but only cuz me Da' used to say it all the time..(thanks for bringing back that memory of him!
I used a machine like this one to open a safe. This is a large stationary metal shear. It mangled the walker and the Kennedy. No way i was sending it to the melting pot without seeing what was inside
a little overkill, back when i was doing a scrap job at lincoln tech (used to be a hotel) i had the opportunity to get 5 safes, ranging in size from a very small one to a 6 foot tall by 3 foot wide, and 5 foot deep safe, all came open easy with sawsall to the hinges and prybar, my nephew had em open in a matter of minutes..the large one was a 12,000.00 safe (i looked it up) the ease at which they all opened makes one wonder of the efficacy of the inkling of security one thinks a safe holds..but if i had your machine, heck might of tried it for the fun of it....that was one of my bigger gc/scrapping jobs we removed ofer 40 tonss of metal including 12 tons of stainless steel, 1 ton of industrial batteries, and 3000 pounds of copper, among every other metal you can imagine, took over a month with 5 employees working 50 hour weeks...after salaries, gasoline was biggest expense, my 450 xl super duty (old sherrif prisoner transport van) and my big tex trailer made 3 trips to and from the scrap yard a day, and i used up both tanks, trip to the dump was only 6 miles round trip and 30 mile round trip empty to and from my house...fun times
It was overkill but it sure was fun! You should have seen some of the crazy things we did with that machine! It was more for the "here let's try this" I had a torch but didn't know what was inside and didn't want to burn anything up. I got into many old safes there but this was the only one with anything remotely nice. It was mainly a large penny collection. With a few odds and ends of other things.
the large safe we "cracked" had 11 coin trays for cash registers, some 20 year old cc carbon copies and 2 lincoln cents, the others had varying types of valuables as they were room safes...not bad, a little bonus..ya never know what your gonna find scrapping, especially at a 80 year old hotel
@SensibleSal66 Funny you should ask. Just yesterday I went to see the New Hope & Railroad and put a quarter on the track and #40 did a fine job. Thanks for asking.
People used to do that with the Abe Lincoln and William McKinley funeral trains. They'd put an IHC on the tracks and then keep it as a souvenir. Here's one from McKinley's funeral train that the owner had counterstamped. BTW, the inscription was McKinley's last words.
Yup, I'm just a whippersnapper What ? You don't remember the movie from 1994 ? I'm quite happy it triggered a fond memory for you