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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim
in spite of warnings that defacing coins is a Federal offense, it has been common for years, with engraving, drilling and, of course, flattening on railroad tracks.
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Actually the law says it's illegal to try and spend a defaced coin, not deface it.
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On the month-long boat trip to Vietnam in 1966, silver quarters were still in circulation and bored troops discovered that the steel spoons from the mess hall (or whatever the Navy called it) could be used to hammer the quarters into various shapes including rings.
It took a lot of hammering and the process was far from quiet. After a couple of weeks of constant ding-ding-ding, the fad thankfully died out.
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Ha ha, that was going on in my dorm('62-'63) and it echoed like a bitch, I imagine shipboard would be intolerable.
I'd go to the empty auditorium late at night to work on mine.
