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Saw this type of unique coin mentioned by another hunter in a vid on YouTube.
Back in the 4O's and especially the 50's when 10 cent coke machines were popular kids, little scammers that they all are at heart, figured out if you grind a wheatie down to the diameter and thickness of a dime these machines were dumb enough to take them.
Kids put these coins under the toes of their shoes and rubbed them back and forth on a sidewalk to thin them down and worked the edge rubbing them on concrete too.
This thing was worked to death...the diameter is exactly right but whoever machined this one wore it down way thin as you can see from the pic where it is sitting on a modern dime.
A very cool oddity to add to the collection, so glad I heard a story about this thing or it would have confused the heck out of me when I found it.
Back in the 4O's and especially the 50's when 10 cent coke machines were popular kids, little scammers that they all are at heart, figured out if you grind a wheatie down to the diameter and thickness of a dime these machines were dumb enough to take them.
Kids put these coins under the toes of their shoes and rubbed them back and forth on a sidewalk to thin them down and worked the edge rubbing them on concrete too.
This thing was worked to death...the diameter is exactly right but whoever machined this one wore it down way thin as you can see from the pic where it is sitting on a modern dime.
A very cool oddity to add to the collection, so glad I heard a story about this thing or it would have confused the heck out of me when I found it.
) from our "DADS" had we tried that.. 