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<p>[QUOTE="coop, post: 919520, member: 17656"]Without an image, I'm thinking an acid dipped cent. It probably looks like this?</p><p><img src="http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/Acid_dipped_Coins.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The rim would be missing and thinner than normal. Acid was used at that time in chemistry class to experiment on cents. Why? They would dip the coins to reduce the size so they could put into a pop machine to get a soda for a cent and sometimes get change back passing it off as a dime in the machines back then. I refer to them a "Pop Money".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="coop, post: 919520, member: 17656"]Without an image, I'm thinking an acid dipped cent. It probably looks like this? [IMG]http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/Acid_dipped_Coins.jpg[/IMG] The rim would be missing and thinner than normal. Acid was used at that time in chemistry class to experiment on cents. Why? They would dip the coins to reduce the size so they could put into a pop machine to get a soda for a cent and sometimes get change back passing it off as a dime in the machines back then. I refer to them a "Pop Money".[/QUOTE]
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