• @[email protected]
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    207 months ago

    Cents since 1982 are mostly zinc with a thin shell of bronze. They’ll rot badly if compromised with a hole.

    • @[email protected]
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      137 months ago

      I’ve never seen/heard anyone refer to them as cents referring to the physical coin rather than the value and calling the coin a penny

      • ferret
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        47 months ago

        If you want to be pedantic, the use of cents in that way is incorrect.

        • @toynbee
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          27 months ago

          But it makes so much sense!

    • LostXOR
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      Could always use a nickel, they’re a nickel copper alloy IIRC which should be more resilient.

      Edit: I’m dumb, older nickels don’t have a date on them. Quarters or dimes should work though.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    Shouldn’t the other penny behind the front one be rotated a bit prior to punching so you can actually see the minted year without having to pull up the front penny?

    It’ll look a bit janky but at least it’ll follow the intent of the post.

    • Ephera
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      27 months ago

      I’m guessing, it won’t be offset like that most of the time…? I mean, it is theoretically possible, if that hole isn’t round, which is hard to tell from this picture, but that just seems rather inconvenient for a key chain.

    • arglebargle
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      7 months ago

      I am not a fan of emojis in online conversation, but this time it does change how I perceived what you wrote. You are not happy about this? I would be so pleased if my country got rid of the penny.

    • @ch00f
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      47 months ago

      Nope. Destroying currency in a manner that does not constitute fraud is not illegal in America.

      • @owenfromcanada
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        77 months ago

        Oh, I meant putting a hole in Abe Lincoln’s head.

        /jk

        • @LemmyKnowsBest
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          Yeah. John Wilkes Booth definitely committed a crime.