digger27
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Illegal scamming coin from the 50's...
The cool find from yesterday....
Back in the 50's when Coke and other soda vending machines were 10 cents for a bottle kids figured out how to scam these machines.
Take a cent, put it under the ball of your shoe and rub it back and forth on a concrete sidewalk.
Then work on grinding down the edges on concrete too.
When you are done you have a coin the size of a dime...but not a dime.
Important when you are a kid in the 50's when pennies really counted and you didn't mind or care that this was illegal.
This thing is way thinner than a dime as you can see in the pic...someone went too far, but the diameter is exactly correct.
I knew what this paper thin coin was all about immediately when I dug it because I had heard about kids doing this from another hunter on YouTube after he found one.
Good thing, I would still be confused about it to this moment if I hadn't.
Another cool coin oddity to add to the collection.
The cool find from yesterday....
Back in the 50's when Coke and other soda vending machines were 10 cents for a bottle kids figured out how to scam these machines.
Take a cent, put it under the ball of your shoe and rub it back and forth on a concrete sidewalk.
Then work on grinding down the edges on concrete too.
When you are done you have a coin the size of a dime...but not a dime.
Important when you are a kid in the 50's when pennies really counted and you didn't mind or care that this was illegal.
This thing is way thinner than a dime as you can see in the pic...someone went too far, but the diameter is exactly correct.
I knew what this paper thin coin was all about immediately when I dug it because I had heard about kids doing this from another hunter on YouTube after he found one.
Good thing, I would still be confused about it to this moment if I hadn't.
Another cool coin oddity to add to the collection.
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