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<p>[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 2102126, member: 4910"]I checked the local CoinStar machine today and saw several coins in the reject bin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually a foreign coin causes the machine to reject coins, buy all 30 of the coins were US pennies, probably from the same person but I can not be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>One had been hammered to nearly the size of a quarter; that one probably caused the rejection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the others, 8 were zinc, 19 were Lincoln Memorial copper, and two were wheat pennies, a 1956 which had two wire-cutter marks, and this altered 1946-S penny:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1946s_altered.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine.</p><p>It weighs 2.67gm, is 19mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had heard of pennies altered this way but had not seen one until now.</p><p><br /></p><p>On December 3, 2010 President Obama pardoned a man for doing this "coin mutilation" in 1963, posted here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pres-obama-pardons-man-convicted-of-mutilation-of-coins.143584" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pres-obama-pardons-man-convicted-of-mutilation-of-coins.143584">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pres-obama-pardons-man-convicted-of-mutilation-of-coins.143584</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 2102126, member: 4910"]I checked the local CoinStar machine today and saw several coins in the reject bin. Usually a foreign coin causes the machine to reject coins, buy all 30 of the coins were US pennies, probably from the same person but I can not be sure. One had been hammered to nearly the size of a quarter; that one probably caused the rejection. Of the others, 8 were zinc, 19 were Lincoln Memorial copper, and two were wheat pennies, a 1956 which had two wire-cutter marks, and this altered 1946-S penny: [IMG]http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1946s_altered.jpg[/IMG] The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine. It weighs 2.67gm, is 19mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth. I had heard of pennies altered this way but had not seen one until now. On December 3, 2010 President Obama pardoned a man for doing this "coin mutilation" in 1963, posted here: [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pres-obama-pardons-man-convicted-of-mutilation-of-coins.143584[/url] :)[/QUOTE]
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