Pressed Pennies

[DSNY FN]

Hi I was hoping that maybe someone could help me out with something. My daughter is collecting pressed pennies and needs to finish off the princess series and the tigger winnie series. if someone is going down sometime soon and can pick them up for me I will gladly send you the quarters and pennies along with a list of the ones she needs. The ones she is collecting are in the resorts only so if anyone could help me out that would be great
Thanks Darren & Lisa

[hockey mom]

I am not going until April, but if you still need them by then I would be glad to get them for you.

[DSNY FN]

Thank you so much for the offer if we have not gotten them all by then I will let you know which ones we need and send you the pennies and quarters so you can get them for us.
Thanks again
Darren & Lisa

[MikeJ]

Of course, you post this the day after we arrive in Orlando (but I realize it was just after you got back). Our DS has taken a shine to the pressed pennies (no pun intended :) ) as well - and it's a whole lot cheaper than those pins. You can get 14 pressed pennies for the same average cost as one pin. If I had seen your list before we left (or if I'd set up Netzero on the laptop before we'd left) I could have pressed some for your daughter as we were making the rounds.

I figure we dropped over $20 in pressed pennies for our son. I made the mistake of printing off the list of penny presses from a web site and he took that list with him everywhere we went.

- Mike

[North7]

Hi Mike,

Do you recall the address of the web site where you printed off the list of penny presses? My son is also taking an interest in this and I'm sure we will be looking for them next trip.

Thanks,

Jeff

[MikeJ]

I have it bookmarked at work. I'll check when I'm in tomorrow and will post it here.

- Mike

[peek]

I'd love the site as well Mike. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

[DSNY FN]

Well that is ok Mike it just figures that I arrived home at around 10:30 on the night of the 20th and didn't think of posting this untill the 22nd just my luck. I would love to get the web address for the site to if it isn't too much trouble. Thanks again for the offer of getting them for me and my daughter. Alas she is also a pin nut to now so we are stuck with both things so Mike did you buy your son a pressed pennie book at the resort for his collection we bought one it was actualy a good idea but for all the pennies they find that they like you actually need about 3 of them at 6 buck a pop oh well what can you do eh.
Thanks again Darren

[kellyla]

Here is a site listing the pressed pennies.

http://www.liss.olm.net/ec/disney/wdw/

[peek]

Thanks for the site for the pressed pennies!!!!

[MikeJ]

Yup. That's the site I had bookmarked at work. I should bookmark it at home, too. :)

We found a couple of machines that aren't on the list (one in Canada, one in Morocco) that I'll be emailing to the maintainer of that web page.

Actually, Darren, our son has four books, one for each of the 3 big parks and one which is shared between AK and the resorts. He informs us that the next time we go down he'll need at least one other book. Of course, Disney will have changed a lot of the blanks by then which will cost us even more. :(.

- Mike

[kellyla]

Mike,my boys got really involved in those pressed pennies the last time we were in WDW.They turned out to be one of the best souvenirs they got(and we bought them)They are always rearranging them and showing them to people.We are already collecting American quarters and shiny pennies to be used the next time we go.These are definately souvenirs that i dont mind paying for even if they keep replacing them with new ones.

[MikeJ]

There was a thread (and I can't remember which board it was on) about how to shine up pennies for use in the presses. Our son wants to try and shine up some of his more tarnished ones. I'll have to search out that thread and put a link to it here.

We'd also planned on hitting a bank in Orlando to pick up a roll of quarters (somehow, acquiring pennies never seems to be an issue :p ) but we never made the time to do that.

I looked through his penny collection last night. He's got 57 pennies and 3 pressed quarters. That's US$32.82. Add in the four albums at $6 each, plus tax, our total investment in the pressed pennies is US$58.26. I checked out the pins while we were there, and an average price for a pin seems to be around $6.50. Plus anyone who's anyone has to have a lanyard. I didn't price them, but if a bottle strap is $3, the pin lanyards have to be at least $5. So we could replace his 60 pressed coins and albums and end up with 7 or 8 pins and a lanyard. Somehow, it seems we've got the better (i.e. cheaper :D ) end of the deal. Plus he feels he gets more for his money, which is what it's all about anyway.

- Mike

[animalcrackers]

<SIZE="3"><FONT="courier new><COLOR="crimson">What are pressed pennies?

[hockey mom]

You put a penny in a machine and a quarter to pay for it and the penny comes out flat, with a character logo on it.

[MikeJ]

Actually, it's 2 quarters to pay for it.

They also have pressed quarter machines - most of them take 5 quarters (of which one is pressed) although there are a couple which only take 4.

[DSNY FN]

Well Pressed Pennies have become something of a favourite in this house and our oldest daughter is already counting the days till we go back so she can get more of them hehehe. She won't be back until 2003 but she says that is ok because she has more time to collect pennies and quarters for the machines. We are thankful for the great people on the boards that offered to help us with the ones she really needs to finish her collections now and we will be happy to send you all the american quarters you need a word to everyone though try and get as many 1999 or newer canadian pennies we found they pressed better than the US pennies do even though the machines say not to use canadian coins.
Darren & Lisa