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Originally posted by bundy
wow, they must be incredible shears
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yup
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Originally posted by bundy
... are American pennies thin ?
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not really, but they are filled with zinc inside the copper plating. The kitchen shears can cut through fully copper pennies too (before 1982) it's just harder.
Just so that this post has some relevence to the thread, a short history of the US penny:
1859-1909 Indian Cent:
1909 Lincoln Cent:
1943 Steel Cent:
1959 Memorial Cent:
1982: The rising price of copper finally took its toll on the Lincoln cent in 1982. The composition in 1982 was changed to an alloy of 99.2 percent zinc and 0.8 percent copper, plated by pure copper - making the total composition 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper.
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Originally posted by oberon
Has anyone tried taking the bags to the bank and see if they do this sort of thing? Perhaps (a lot?) cheaper than those Coinstar machines?
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my bank does this.