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Reply to: #769618 by Sea Maid
Apr 14, 2013 6:27pm
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They are pretty cool. There is a site where you can find machines in a given area to get your pennies pressed:
http://www.pennycollector.com/arealist.aspx

I like to find one to get a souvenir when we are traveling.
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Reply to: #769618 by Sea Maid
Apr 15, 2013 8:47pm
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I have been collecting pressed pennies for years, after two cross country road trips i have several books of them. They are inexpensive and easily portable souvenirs. My most prized is the one I got in the observation floor of the World Trade Center, a year before the tragedy. :(
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Reply to: #769837 by Open Space
Apr 16, 2013 5:01am
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I needed this website! now i can get more pressed pennies!! I knew that there had to be a site like this!
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Reply to: #769837 by Open Space
May 1, 2013 12:12am
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Thanks for that link. I never knew there were so many in Oklahoma. I only have one that I got from Woolaroc a few years ago. Two here in or close to Tulsa that I wouldn't have thought of, zoo, and Bass Pro shop. Sounds like a fun hobby.
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Reply to: #769837 by Open Space
May 1, 2013 4:32am
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I used to do these, and love them... but I noticed recently most machines seem to take $1 to get a coin rolled. When did this happen? I feel that it was maybe a year ago that I was still paying $0.50 for one. It is a lot of fun to get them when traveling and see them at rest area's and the like. I just can't see under most circumstances paying more than $0.50 for this, and I think saddly that the higher price will kill this hobby over time.
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Reply to: #773346 by RingoH
May 1, 2013 8:22am
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The machines at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago went up to $1 a couple of years ago. Since then, I refuse to use those machines, even though I'm there a few times a month. I don't understand why they would double the price. Do they really need the extra revenue that badly?

TG
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Reply to: #773395 by Trekkie Gal
May 1, 2013 9:09am
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Do they really need the extra revenue that badly?

I think part of the issue comes that these places think you are getting one, and not realizing how many people were already stopping for multiples. Those of us that think they are fun to collect will typically get all four designs (assuming all four are related to the tourism, and not say two or three related to the place and the other one or two saying just "lucky penny", etc).

The tourists who get them are now more apt to get just one, or not bother at all. Those of us that collect them will think twice as well.

My gut reaction is that they drouble the price, they lose half or more of their business.
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Reply to: #773395 by Trekkie Gal
May 1, 2013 9:22am
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I don't understand why they would double the price. Do they really need the extra revenue that badly?

It's simple, really. The 50-cent machines are mechanical - there are coin slots that take the quarters. But a dollar machine is electronic, so it can scan the dollar, check for counterfeit, etc. And the electronics for that and even the electricity to run it cost money, so they HAD to raise the price to a dollar.

There! Logic!

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