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Cool item (to me) - 1945 "Spark Plug" Cent

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,867 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just when you thought you've heard of everything.......image

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    Braddick probably knows Capt. Davis of the Oceanside PD image
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,888 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Without that card, I'd be yawning and/or scratching my head, but with the old typewritten card, that's pretty neat.

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    kool image
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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a neat item with the card.

    I've seen a couple cents in blank brass encasements like that. Now I know what they were probably intended for.
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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's pretty neat!
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  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,247 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree. Really cool item with the card.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that is interesting...especially with the documentation. I was growing up at that time and we had a lot of schemes, but never heard of this one. Cheers, RickO
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,764 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a new one to me! Great item with the old card.
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  • ndgoflondgoflo Posts: 101
    Too cool, always wondered why anyone would encase a cent without any advertising. I have had this one put away for years as a curiosity, now I know what it is. Thanks for posting!
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,838 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is very interesting, and I was not aware of it. I'm trying to figure out how the spark plug part works with this item. The spark plugs I have seen had a smaller diameter than a cent.
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,734 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This is very interesting, and I was not aware of it. I'm trying to figure out how the spark plug part works with this item. The spark plugs I have seen had a smaller diameter than a cent. >>




    You are probably looking at spark plugs made for cars manufactured well after the early 1950s. image


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  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    That was 70 years ago. What type of coin frauds are going on these days, other than counterfeit Sackies in Ecuador?
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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a first for me, too.

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ya those would be big plugs

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is neat.
  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool and neat write up.

    Thanks for sharing!

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Great Post. Have bin wondering for a long time what these where.
    Found this one on the sidewalk.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's what made this country great-American ingenuity.image
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  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671 ✭
    Very neat but I don't need one. I need more ROOSIE'S.image
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
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    This MAY have been the type of spark plug used, were used in flathead engines such as cars and tractors back then, as well as aircraft engines.
    Is what my 1940 Harley uses. Champion Part No. is D-16
    Now is referenced as an 18 mm plug, which =.708" diameter, Lincoln Cent is .750 diameter, however the washer is an loose fit on the plug, so, may have fit.
    Will measure OD-outer diameter of washer next time I'm in the shop, and, weigh it as well, with, and without the cent, to see if it equals Silver Quarter.
    Interesting, Thank You for sharing.
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    Noticed the date on the 'evidence tag'. May-25-1955
    Wonder if they received any 1955 DDO Cents in their change in smoke pack?
    ETA, would have been Justice had they received the DDO and created another 'bootleg' Quarter!
    Oh, $.25 in 1955 would be $2.19 today.
  • CoupdescroungeCoupdescrounge Posts: 173 ✭✭
    What type of coin frauds are going on these days, other than counterfeit Sackies in Ecuador?

    I've seen bulk modern fakes being sold on some of the overseas sites, quarters, dimes etc.. and they can be purchased for below face value. I wonder if those will run through vending machines.
  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fun stuff. Thanks for sharing. The first I have heard of this.

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ya those would be big plugs

    Steve >>



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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very interesting.
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  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    Beats sticking narrow strips of the phone book down the dime slot on an old pay phone to get a dial tone...
  • razzlerazzle Posts: 993 ✭✭✭
    That's funny stuff, love hearing about it. Hope it reduced the tar and nicoteen...
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  • planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭
    So, back in the 50's, were spark plug washers brass or copper?

    I've turned a wrench or two on much more modern cars, and I can recall using copper "crush" washers here and there, but I thought the washers on spark plugs (including those pictured here) are all steel these days.

    I've gotta ask because that washer sure matches up in color to the cent.

    Best thread all day, btw. image
  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    An aircraft Champion® M-674 Spark Plug Gasket - AN4027-1, 18MM
    Used to establish seal between spark plug port and plug.

    A US cent is 19mm OD?, press it into an 18 mm ID aircraft spec spark plug washer, maybe? Kinda looks like it... Text

    It''s .040" difference between th ID / OD of the two... My .02


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  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Here's some contemporary coin fraud (via Timothy Grat):


    Recyclers try to defraud U.S. Mint with counterfeit coins from China, feds say
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  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's some contemporary coin fraud (via Timothy Grat):


    Recyclers try to defraud U.S. Mint with counterfeit coins from China, feds say >>



    "Interestingly, United States Mint personnel also believe that more half dollars have been redeemed by China-sourced vendors in the last 10 years than the United States Mint has ever manufactured in its history," according to a forfeiture complaint filed in U.S. District Court on March 20 by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lakshmi Srinivasan Herman.

    Amazing. Uh, check that. Not so amazing. I'll go with not surprised at all.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    thats a good one. cept when they got caught on federal charges

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