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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1944460, member: 38849&quot;]On a related theme, you find a lot of Canadian nickels, especially from the 1950s and 1960s, with a long horizontal scratch across the diameter (on either side).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The culprit?&nbsp; Canadian parking meters, which must have had some internal mechanism or device to grasp and/or pull the coin down from the slot into the cashbox.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fat chance you&#039;d find 5c parking today, so nickels after the early 1990s no longer have this particular mutilation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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