Note: Please keep in mind, we are not lawyers, web masters or English Majors! Yes, ParkPennies. Also, these references address only United States coinage. Canada and some other countries do not permit mutilation of their coins. Lastly, given recent legislation regarding the export and melting of U.
Already many Disney "penny press machines" press tokens, planchets, blanks or "slugs" rather than actual coins e. If you are a pressed penny collector, you may enjoy our pressed penny collections page. Did you email someone and ask if it is illegal to press, elongate, deface, smash, mutilate, smush, mash, mush, flatten, cut, crush, squash, roll, stamp, squish, stretch or pinch United States coins?
How about possession of a pressed penny? Intent to make a pressed penny? Are your palms sweating yet? Did you ask someone if pressing pennies is legal because you are worried that the coins you pressed in Vegas did not stay in Vegas? Did someone tell you it is legal to press coins in penny press machines, someone you seriously doubt? Does worry over the legality of pressing pennies or other U.
Do you look both ways before you press a penny? And then run away from the scene of the "crime" as quickly as you can? Do you find yourself associating with or conspiring with known penny pressers, in dark arcades, infested with penny press machines, fearing you'll be discovered by the law?
Did you make comments like "Isn't pressing pennies against the law? Did you answer yes or choose to remain silent rather than answering any one of the preceding questions? As it turns out, we can turn to the President for a teaching moment on fraudulent coin mutilation.
According to the Washington Post , Mr. However, if you come across a press that converts pennies into dimes, that would be a souvenir that you should not take home with you. Prohibits exporting 5-cent and one-cent coins of the United States. A man named Matt Masich took his family all across Colorado with as many pennies as he could find to get as many different smushed pennies as possible.
His recounting of his journey was originally published in Colorado Life Magazine. Pennies from before are preferred by collectors, because they are made entirely of copper, according to Park Pennies. Pennies after that date contain zinc in the middle, which leaves silvery streaks on the smashed penny.
Serious collectors know how vast the array of different styles is, so they usually try to stick to just one genre of design , like politics or space.
Some also try to get every design from one specific brand or type of roller, according to Penny Collector. It's a whole wide world of elongated pennies out there. Did you know all about it? Do you think you'll start collecting? Have you ever brought any pressed pennies home from one of your family vacations?
Sometimes, it's the thrill of the chase for collectors. If you ask me, I'm partial to squisher. From The Web Ads by Revcontent. The content you see here is paid for by the advertiser or content provider whose link you click on, and is recommended to you by Revcontent.
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