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RE: Pocket Change Peculiarities: Fine Silver Ounces
One of my library patrons has a penny squishing machine. He sorts out the new zinc core pennies and keeps the old copper ones for his machine.
One of my library patrons has a penny squishing machine. He sorts out the new zinc core pennies and keeps the old copper ones for his machine.
@jacobtothe, that is interesting, I have always saved the wheat back pennies.
In the middle of the 1982 penny minting, they switched from 100% copper alloy to a copper clad zinc core. The zinc pennies are easier to squish but tend to show the core as they are crushed
@jacobtothe, why do you want to crush them?
He has his own dies for penny presses like you see at tourist traps, and he collects the souvenir squished pennies from around the country.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin