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Guess I'll just have to go to the DIV to get better looking coins....check these out from yesterday's ocean ....
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Butch in Colorado
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Craig in Alabama
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about finding the key part.
my dad collected tokens for years. he came up with the idea of contacting old vending machine companies thinking they might have gotten slugs, or even tokens, through the years. his thought was they may have been saved away by the machine owners.
he was right. he found a guy that had a double handful of just "pure junk" that had been used or stuck in the machines. dad offered the guy face value, or equivalent size value, for all. this was back in the early seventies mind you (when you could get coal tokens for face value...believe it or not)
well, within the grouping were plenty of old key 'heads', including the hole, where the key part was sawed and filed off to make it round. right size and thickness meant "slug!". back in the very early sixties and before they were used as slugs.
also in the grouping were pennies filed down to dime size. thickness included. i have to admit concrete did the job very quickly. just a little heat on the finger tips.
also, a few merchant tokens. after dad died i found the group of 'pure junk' and recalled his story. within the group was a poor condition lumber token good for one cent. yep, it was the size of a dime. i really enjoyed looking through the grouping. the variety of key heads was neat enough .....
mike w.
my dad collected tokens for years. he came up with the idea of contacting old vending machine companies thinking they might have gotten slugs, or even tokens, through the years. his thought was they may have been saved away by the machine owners.
he was right. he found a guy that had a double handful of just "pure junk" that had been used or stuck in the machines. dad offered the guy face value, or equivalent size value, for all. this was back in the early seventies mind you (when you could get coal tokens for face value...believe it or not)
well, within the grouping were plenty of old key 'heads', including the hole, where the key part was sawed and filed off to make it round. right size and thickness meant "slug!". back in the very early sixties and before they were used as slugs.
also in the grouping were pennies filed down to dime size. thickness included. i have to admit concrete did the job very quickly. just a little heat on the finger tips.
also, a few merchant tokens. after dad died i found the group of 'pure junk' and recalled his story. within the group was a poor condition lumber token good for one cent. yep, it was the size of a dime. i really enjoyed looking through the grouping. the variety of key heads was neat enough .....
mike w.