Who else has found some of these tokens? This is my 4th one!

[cudamark]

Found this one in a park instead of at the beach like my previous ones. Kind of an interesting concept by the Happy Runner. Is he still doing this? Makes you kind of wonder how many are still out there.

 

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[Mackaydon]

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Don......

 

[cudamark]

Yes, I've been to that site and posted it.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[SusanMN]

You think this guy has a penny squashing machine in his basement?

 

[against the wind]

When flagging for NYC Transit, we would place pennies on the track and pick them up after the train passed over them.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

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Don......

Interesting site Don, thanks for sharing it.

I think Susan hit the nail on the head with her suggestion... or in this case, the penny.

Nice find Mark, sure beats finding just another Lincoln.
Dave

 

[Red-Coat]

You think this guy has a penny squashing machine in his basement?

Interesting site Don, thanks for sharing it.

I think Susan hit the nail on the head with her suggestion... or in this case, the penny.

Nice find Mark, sure beats finding just another Lincoln.
Dave

I reckon so too. You can sometimes see traces of the host coins he uses to make these things and he's using coins from all over the world. For the one posted here, you can just make out the tail end of "ELIZABETH.II" above the word "LUCKY"

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

very cool, thanks for posting

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I reckon so too. You can sometimes see traces of the host coins he uses to make these things and he's using coins from all over the world. For the one posted here, you can just make out the tail end of "ELIZABETH.II" above the word "LUCKY"

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Great eyes for spotting this Red-Coat.
I wonder if they used Canadian Pennies because they were almost pure copper and would flatten more easily than US pennies? From 1980 — 1996 Canada Pennies were 98% copper, 1.75% tin and 0.25% zinc. After 1997, they changed to 98.4% zinc and were copper plated - we completely discontinued making pennies after 2012.
Dave

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on a cool find !

I've found several "Elongated Pennies" with different lettering stamped on them.
But none of mine have "Happy Runner" on them.

 

[Red-Coat]

Great eyes for spotting this Red-Coat.
I wonder if they used Canadian Pennies because they were almost pure copper and would flatten more easily than US pennies? From 1980 — 1996 Canada Pennies were 98% copper, 1.75% tin and 0.25% zinc. After 1997, they changed to 98.4% zinc and were copper plated - we completely discontinued making pennies after 2012.
Dave

Could be Dave. British decimal pennies were also high-copper bronze (97% copper, 2.5% zinc, 0.5% tin) between 1971 and 1992 before we switched to copper-plated steel. I think he's just using anything of suitable size and alloy. I remember seeing one where the host coin was from Eastern Europe. I forget exactly which country, but If I remember correctly it was somewhere like Bulgaria or Romania.

 

[pepperj]

Great eyes for spotting this Red-Coat.
I wonder if they used Canadian Pennies because they were almost pure copper and would flatten more easily than US pennies? From 1980 — 1996 Canada Pennies were 98% copper, 1.75% tin and 0.25% zinc. After 1997, they changed to 98.4% zinc and were copper plated - we completely discontinued making pennies after 2012.
Dave

Could be Dave. British decimal pennies were also high-copper bronze (97% copper, 2.5% zinc, 0.5% tin) between 1971 and 1992 before we switched to copper-plated steel. I think he's just using anything of suitable size and alloy. I remember seeing one where the host coin was from Eastern Europe. I forget exactly which country, but If I remember correctly it was somewhere like Bulgaria or Romania.

If using coinage from another country then one doesn't fall into the "Defacing money" category from authorities.
Cool find, beats finding just a regular penny.

 

[pepperj]

I don't have any cents so I can't compare...