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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 1809383, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few of those around here someplace.&nbsp; It is a Post Mint creation so it is not an error.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen this work so I know that the story is true but strange.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the day when pay phones were more common, A quarter altered that way could have a piece of thread tied around the deformed edge.&nbsp; The coin with the string could be dropped into a phone or vending machine just far enough to trigger the mechanism that would activate the phone or vending machine.&nbsp;&nbsp; The coin could then be pulled up and out of the slot that the coin was dropped into.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a way to rip off phone companies and vending companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t believe it either until a guy in NY showed me how it worked.&nbsp; This guy had it down to such a science that the thread he dangled the coin on was knotted in such a way that the coin could only go into the phone so far.&nbsp; The length of the thread was different for the vending machines but the theory was the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said,&nbsp; I am pretty sure that that is what you have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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