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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gregg, post: 3161058, member: 90419&quot;]These are relics of the Civil War.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the war, getting a secret message securely across enemy lines was very difficult.&nbsp; At one point agents in the North were using hollowed out coinage to accomplish this task - the penny was a good size for the microfiche they were using at the time.&nbsp; It was &quot;knowledge in a penny&quot; that won the war and one reason why Lincoln was honored on the one cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those in the know refer to such pennies as espionage tokens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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