Decided to try to track the history of this weird elongated piece of metal I’ve had for many years. Passed down in my grandfathers coin collection. Amazing what a little magnification can do. What I thought was just 2 words and a date turns out this was once a Barber Quarter Dollar. Pretty neat little 2 hour adventure I just had and figured I’d share. First noticed the 1892 date, then the stars, followed by I’m God We Trust. Flipped it over to track letter by letter D-O-L-L-A-R.

It’s a shiny gold color. May just be the blanks it came with or perhaps it’s because it’s in a old gold mining area.

(I took the rusty coin out of the binder)

Found this machine inside the ferry terminal. Had to get one

We went to the car mueseum in Hershey.

Pressed pennies most commonly have the classic “dotted” border, but I love when designs stray from the norm. I’ve included pictures of some of the different kinds of borders in my collection. I quite like the barbed wire one :) What unique borders do you have in your collection?

I got this in Disneyland around 35 years ago.

Some of these go back to the late 1990s.

Ask me if you want me to identify one.

My favorite is the top left of the middle page- Bodyworlds exhibit.

Hello! I'm looking to trade these two sets for any one foreign complete set. My first set is from the Virginia Zoo, and my second is from the Virginia Aquarium. I'm not looking for anything too crazy, I just want to expand the horizons of my collection. Let me know if you're interested :)

Hello! I’m a huge smashed penny fan! I absolutely loving going around and finding the booths/coin smashers I have about 30ish from my childhood (26F)

I was just curious if anyone would be willing to send some smashed pennys my way? I really want to turn them into a craft and make little coasters out of them, personally I think that’d be the cutest thing ever! I’d much more enjoy to make a little side table of smashed pennys but I don’t nearly have enough! Coasters might be a good little starting point

If anyone is willing to part with some of their collection or just don’t want them

The date is a little smudged but I’m gonna put it somewhere in the era of whenever the mars rover landed and now.🤣

I accidentally deleted my earlier post of this coin unfortunately, but wanted it to be available for viewing since it’s so cool. I apologize for repost and deleting y’all’s comments!

Found this in florida with my metal detector at the site of an old hotel which is now a park. Picture of travel trans building. Reverse still has the markings of a wheat penny.

A selection of smashed coins from my trip from Japan.

Many of the pokecenters in Japan that I went to had a selection of store specific smashed coins. They provide the copper coin to be smashed and you just put some money in.

I think it was around 500 yen which is around $3.

There were other places that had smashed coins as well. I found it interesting that most of these coins had English on them - I guess these machines cater mostly to tourists.

They could have used a 10 yen copper coin for the base but I guess it’s easier to just provide the blank itself.

⁨I was able to get a couple of pressed pennies in Mexico City. There they use bimetallic 1 peso coins instead of pennies for the base.

They cost about 10 pesos each to make it about $0.60. The pressed penny machines I found were in the Mexico City Cathedral and the Torre Latinamericana.

The machines were pretty popular and you can see the remnants of the obverse and reverse of the 1 peso coins used in the back.

Found at a goodwill bin store

I recently went to the Orlando Flordia Sea World and got a ton of pennies but I have a set that I cant find the machine number for. Does anyone know which machine these four belong to? For those wondering its a Seal, a Shark, a leaping Orca. and a Penguin

Nashville Zoo trip was a success! A little fun fact: Australian 5 cent pieces fit in the penny slot 🤫 can still see a part of Queen Elizabeth II on the alligator. The 3rd super shiny one is a reprocessed steel cent!