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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 6234030, member: 84179&quot;]Back in the 50s and 60s, when vending machine technology was still low tech, people could file down cents and use them in place of a dime to buy a coke or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are struck in a collar of a fixed size.&nbsp; For your coin to have left the mint like that, A smaller collar would have to be manufactured, force fit into the coining chamber, and somehow not get damaged from the larger dies when struck the coin.&nbsp; That can&#039;t happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody with time on their hands did a nice job shaving it down.&nbsp; Occasionally, somebody asks a question about these and the workmanship is usually a lot more crude[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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