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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2745875, member: 12789&quot;]Back when Ma Bell priced pay phone calls at 10c it was not uncommon for people to file or mill off the edges of cents to get them to the approximate dimensions and weight of a dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have gotten some of them in dime rolls, even BWR rolls.&nbsp; They show up in CWR cent from time to time more often than dime rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>The raising of the cost of a call from a dime to a quarter saw the end of cents being so modified - but there are a bunch of them out there.&nbsp; I probably have several dozen from cent box searches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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