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Public broadcast warning to fellow coin collectors

I spied this sign while on vacation with the family last week. I told my wife that us coin collectors live dangerously and she just rolled her eyes.

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  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Initially I thought that this must be the result of some creative photoshop work yet then I saw:


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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had been out of the hobby for several years in 1982, when I went to the San Francisco Zoo with my girlfriend.

    There was a sign by the penguin pool asking people not to throw pennies into the water as they were made of zinc
    and were dangerous to penguins.

    I hadn't known until then that the US had switched from making pennies with copper to zinc.

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  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    And yet, even with the switch to Zn, we still loose money each year in the striking. Cents eat holes in our budget pockets.
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