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<p>[QUOTE="MisterWD, post: 3189300, member: 76991"]Filing a cent down to dime size would require a lot of danged work for a gain of $.09. In the mid sixties minimum wage was $1.35.That means one would have had to do fifteen per hour just to make minimum wage. You'd have to make it smaller in diameter and thinner too. And I doubt that it would work even then because vending machines, even back in the fifties and sixties, do a bounce test to insure the coin is made of the right material. These days most machines even weigh the coins. Other than that it's a pretty good story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MisterWD, post: 3189300, member: 76991"]Filing a cent down to dime size would require a lot of danged work for a gain of $.09. In the mid sixties minimum wage was $1.35.That means one would have had to do fifteen per hour just to make minimum wage. You'd have to make it smaller in diameter and thinner too. And I doubt that it would work even then because vending machines, even back in the fifties and sixties, do a bounce test to insure the coin is made of the right material. These days most machines even weigh the coins. Other than that it's a pretty good story.[/QUOTE]
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