This year at Disneyland we had a lot of fun collecting pressed pennies. During the past few years we picked up some pressed pennies at Yellowstone and at the aquarium, and we thought it would be fun to collect pennies at Disneyland. I found a website, parkpennies.com that actually has all of Disneyland’s pressed coins cataloged.
Did you know that midway in 1982 they stopped making pennies out of pure copper, and instead made them out of zinc and only copper-coated them? I had a jar full of pennies, so before we left the kids helped me sort out all of the pre 1982 pennies. Then we cleaned them by soaking them in a solution of vinegar and salt, which makes Hydrogen chloride (an acid). We also went to the bank and got 3 rolls of quarters to put in the machines with our pure copper pennies.
We bought a souvenir book for all of our pressed coins. We even pressed a few quarters and nickels. The kids had fun putting in the coins, pressing the buttons and watching the gears move as they flattened the coins. We filled up the book all except for one slot. Here are some of our favorites:
2 comments:
Ohhh.. you didn't do any of the quarters, those were my favorites.
I really like the two with the Disneyland flags. Sarah just got a pressed penny from the machine at the activity barn at Wheeler Farm. $.51 for one pressed penny. She chose the cute cow design. You also get about 8-9 minutes of ridetime for $1.50 on their tractor-drawn wagon ride.
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