At 7:44 PM -0400 5/31/02, Ron May wrote:
>Anita Cohen-Williams sent a list of web sites for squashed pennies
>and I went to the museum. Amazing! A museum for squashed penny fans.
>There is another link for purchase of those penny squashers. Think
>of the possibilities? Every historic archaeologist in America could
>have one of those machines out in the lobby to dazzle their clients!
I have an elongated penny with the Lords Prayer which I believe I got
from a street vendor in New Orleans, maybe on the sidewalk in front
of some famous building if memory serves. My father carried a pocket
piece that was a penny with the Masonic emblem smushed into Lincoln's
face. If memory serves, the Franklin Insitute in Philadelphia, back
when it was a real museum, had a machine in the basement elevator
lobby. but of course that was before audio visuals replaced real
museum exhibits.
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