This time a 1938. 4 cents.
I'm saving them for laughs, just to see what I get. Thus far I have 4 wheat pennies (1956, 1951, 1938, 1927S) obtained by picking them up from where someone else dropped them. I've also been thinking of saving any copper penny, the ones older than 1982.
another wheat penny
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What's fascinating to me is having a 1 coin that might have floated around hand to hand during the Great Depression, 2 coins that did so during WWII, and all of these pennies are older than the space age. (Okay, okay they all could have sat out the decades in someone's change jar...I much prefer my romantic version.)
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Those zinc ones were cool! He'd melt them at waist level and let them drip onto the concrete porch and when that silver liquid hit the floor it would instantly splat & harden, leaving a shiny, lacy piece of foil behind. If this is illegal defacement, then I think it was really zinc washers or something.
I cannot recall any copper pennies ~I mean washers~ melted.
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