Money too big?

Would that be legal? Defacing government property or something?...

I think quarters should be made smaller, maybe smaller than dimes like the guy said he can make them, but make them coppery.
 
I've followed your directions & I've put $27.00 in quarters into the Coke machine at the gas station across the street AND I STILL CAN'T GET A GODDAM SODA!!!!!

I've gone wrong somewhere. Science has failed me.
 
Rugger said:
I've followed your directions & I've put $27.00 in quarters into the Coke machine at the gas station across the street AND I STILL CAN'T GET A GODDAM SODA!!!!!

I've gone wrong somewhere. Science has failed me.
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Hah, I bet you put them in the full size machine and not the specially shrunken machine, didn't you! Tch!
 
For your questions underaged:

Federal law specifically forbids the "fraudulent mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins" (see US Code, Title 18 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure, Part I - Crimes, Chapter 17 - Coins and Currency, Paragraph 331). The key word is Fraudulent. As long as you don't alter coins with an intent to defraud, then you can pretty much do whatever you wish with coins, including squishing them on railroad tracks, flattening them into elongated souvenirs at tourist traps, or crushing them with electromagnetic fields. I take great pains to tell folks exactly what they are receiving and how the process was accomplished. This is also why those vending machines in tourist traps that squash pennies into elongated souvenirs or "funny" stamped pennies with Lincoln smoking a cigar are indeed legal (although they can't be used as currency anymore). The official position of the US Mint is that they "frown on the despicable practice" of altering coins, but they also agree that it is indeed legal to shrink coins.
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A shrunken coin weighs exactly the same as before, and its density is also unchanged. The coin does get thicker as its diameter is reduced. Certain bi-metal foreign coins with rings and centers made from different alloys show different degrees of shrinkage based upon the electrical conductivity and hardness. In some cases, the center portion may shrink a bit more, freeing it from the outer ring (such as older Mexican bi-metals, older French bi-metals, and the new 2 Euro coins).
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Rugger said:
I've followed your directions & I've put $27.00 in quarters into the Coke machine at the gas station across the street AND I STILL CAN'T GET A GODDAM SODA!!!!!

I've gone wrong somewhere. Science has failed me.
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Science hasn't failed you. Wait till tomorrow, when the delivery man has refilled the empty Coke machine. :cool:
 
gajinoz, the VALUE of my money is shrinking fast enough. I don't need some smart-ass techie to remind me of it!
 
AND I STILL CAN'T GET A GODDAM SODA!!!!!

Look closely, there may be a few shrunken sodas in the depensing tray.

n2s
 
1) Still can't find the small machine
2) Plenty of sodas in the regular machine
3) no 'tiny' sodas in the tray
4) Meds wearing off slowly...
 
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