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Cent in a bottle, for 53 years and counting.
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Have had this since summer, 1964.
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Used to be able to get them at corning glass for $1. Not sure if they still make them or not.
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Bought it at a tourist shop at the east entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, juzt west of Estes Park, Colorado on a family road trip
Nice !!!
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You do have to appreciate the originality!
That is a piece of history, I vaguely remember seeing them
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Still nice & red. Cool!
Unstackable but think of the edge view you get through the blow hole.
Never seen one before.
CAC it now.
I have not seen one of them in many years.....my younger brother had one... no idea what happened to it.... Cheers, RickO
Obviously a cent that was lost in commerce....The bottle subsequently grew around it as a natural formation. I saw a bottle do that to a 'glob' of scotch one time
It's a relic from when coins were really a fun hobby.
Irrelevant coiny junk, weird notes, heads of Kennedy on cents, and $125 for stone GEM seated quarters. :'(
I recall them being sold at a local coin shop around 1965.
How'd they do that?
I remember ordering boxes of these for sale at the shop. Inevitably a few came in pre-cracked out of their “holders” in the boxes which contained 100 pieces. This was the mid to late 70’s and I remember them selling for a buck. They were popular Christmas add ons.
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An original "air tight."
Such a novelty. I remember seeing these before....wonder if there were any other denominations placed in bottles. Cool cork stopper!
There's a bunch on eBay. Who's going to be the first to complete an entire Lincoln Memorial set?
Very difficult to get the tiny coin press, not to mention the blank, inside the bottle to strike the coin.
Those are cool!
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My mother has one of those. No idea where she got it but she's had it for at least 35 years.
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They let the cent soak in water for 24 hours, which makes it very soft. Then they have some well trained kids who roll them by hand and stuff them into the bottles. This is the important part as if they are rolled too tight, you risk crushing the details of the cent and too loose and they won't go in the bottle. Then as the cent dries it slowly unrolls until it's back to being flat again. Then the cork is applied.
It's a modern. You need a QA-check sticker on it instead.
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If you were a scientist you could determine the air quality back in '64....how cool is that? And a cool penny too!
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It was also a rattler.
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Good stuff.
<<< building a subset of these
some of the toning can be real sweet and unusual toned which throws the graders for a loop
thus far i've only found one other american denomination with my 1968 jeffery example (still in the mini glass jug )
here's some i've found but wow...huge congrats to the op for keeping his this long
these get lost in junk drawers and tossed out
enjoy
newly acquired addition...enjoy if ya do
1st coins encapsulated date back
i seen to recall a half dime in a lead crystal decanter but don't have the info handy
here's one i do have some info on...image then article...enjoy if ya do
not sure if that link worked but it's here...
http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n20a15.html
a case currently on ebay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-case-71-Penny-in-a-Bottle-Lot-of-71-in-original-box-blown-glass/122808053557?hash=item1c97ee2f35:g:H~8AAOSwr~lYoQfa
Wow haven't seen LVT around in a while. Welcome back
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
With the coin in the bottle they are too easy to "gas" for toning.
I had one when I was a kid. I think I bought it during a family vacation to Hershey, Pennsylvania. I have no idea where it is now!
The question is:
Will it CAC?
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nice to see that after all these year. its a keeper now for sure
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Leave 'em in the bottle and get PCGS to slab them like they do GSA dollars
An interesting note with that case in the linked Ebay listing explains the color (and it gave away the long secret mystery of how they squeezed them into the bottle). I haven't noticed the toned ones before. Still have one from 1974 that remains full red. Wonder why some tone but not others.
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I used to have one, but I lost the cork and the coin fell out.
Well, what do you know? I still have a couple.
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Photo cropping is your friend.
These aren't in a jar but I thought they were cool. I have a set of 4 that I bought for a Qtr at a yard sale.
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Now we know where PCGS got the idea for the Rattler from!
I had a few of these as a kid in the 80's. I think a local bank gave them out. I always had fun watching the coin "spin" when you titled the bottle back and forth.
I remember these too and used to buy them by the bulk and sell them individually at George Fletcher's Coin Shop in KCMO back in the 70's. I still have a couple in a dresser and one may be a 73-s. What I remember among my high school peers at the time was that many had had one but a large percentage of these we shot with bb guns for target practice.
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my uncle was a scientific glass blower with Wheaton. He had a small shop at his house and used to make these. He and an extremely rare blood type and lived to 107
The US Mint used to sell these in the gift shop. Here's mine from 20 years ago:
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