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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 53249, member: 66"]The countries of the EU used the machines beginning in 2002 to cancel the redeemed obsolete coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for pounding a waffled coin flat and using it in a machine, while the waffling might not alter the diameter that much, the pounding it would take to get it flat again definately would. Then pounding the edge to rduce the diameter would probably result in a rim that was too high. And considering that the largest US coin commonly used in a vending machine is a quarter, you are going to a lot of effort to save a quarter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 53249, member: 66"]The countries of the EU used the machines beginning in 2002 to cancel the redeemed obsolete coinage. As for pounding a waffled coin flat and using it in a machine, while the waffling might not alter the diameter that much, the pounding it would take to get it flat again definately would. Then pounding the edge to rduce the diameter would probably result in a rim that was too high. And considering that the largest US coin commonly used in a vending machine is a quarter, you are going to a lot of effort to save a quarter.[/QUOTE]
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