Pressed Pennies

[iHEARTflorida]

I love to collected pressed pennies while at WDW, and other theme parks, there great inexpensive souviers. And I plan on collecting while at DLR, I plan to buy and new book and filling up, on my 2 days at DLR.

My question is; Why are the DLR pennies double sided whereas the WDW are only 1 sided?

Also I see DLR does pressed nickels - I see these are 80cents, what combo of coins do you need for the machine for these?

Also off topic/but kind of related -- Do you know if the National Parks (Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion etc..) sell Pressed Penny Books to store your coins in? I know they sell the pennies, but when at the Statue of Liberty, NY I saw the pennies, but no books.

 

[It'sJustPoints]

We just started this collection too!
Where in DLR is there a double sided machine??

We used the machine outside of Goofy's Kitchen at DL and inside the gift shop at GC and they were singled sided.

 

[disneyfan4ever54]

Also I see DLR does pressed nickels - I see these are 80cents, what combo of coins do you need for the machine for these?

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The machines take quarters and then the coin that you are pressing, so 3 quarters and 1 nickel are needed to make the pressed nickel.

 

[iHEARTflorida]

The machines take quarters and then the coin that you are pressing, so 3 quarters and 1 nickel are needed to make the pressed nickel.

Duh! I was soo confused I was like it can't be 10dimes, and a nickel. But obivously if you take the nickel away, is 75cents, so 3 quarters! thanks!

Where in DLR is there a double sided machine??

If you go on parkpennies and pennycollector is shows you lists and pictures of all the coins. And the mayority of the coins seem to be double sided, with the disneyland logo on the back.

I was just wondering why WDW didn't do this?

 

[S. S. Columbia]

I love to collected pressed pennies while at WDW, and other theme parks, there great inexpensive souviers. And I plan on collecting while at DLR, I plan to buy and new book and filling up, on my 2 days at DLR.

My question is; Why are the DLR pennies double sided whereas the WDW are only 1 sided?

Also I see DLR does pressed nickels - I see these are 80cents, what combo of coins do you need for the machine for these?

Also off topic/but kind of related -- Do you know if the National Parks (Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion etc..) sell Pressed Penny Books to store your coins in? I know they sell the pennies, but when at the Staten of Liberty, NY I saw the pennies, but no books.

FWIW, last year Yellowstone Nat'l Park sold a "United States PennyCollector" book from pennycollector.com. The pressed penny book holds 36 pennies, and it has room to hold 6 larger coins. It looks like the photo above, with the American flag and eagle, and it sold for $5.00. At Yellowstone, I didn't see any Yellowstone-specific pressed penny books for sale.

HTH

 

[Eeee-va]

I don't know, but I'm wondering if the reason so many DL pennies in particular have the backstamps is because of the 50th anniversary celebration back in 2005-2006. There were 50 or 51 pennies that were given backstamps (possibly just in celebration, or possibly to motivate people to scour the parks to collect them all, since the stamps make them look more like a "set").

So either they put new backstamps in those machines when (or at some point after) they changed out the dies after the anniversary celebration, and/or the celebration showed them that it's relatively easy and/or profitable to add backstamps.

If it takes some significant upgrades/changes to the machines to include a backstamp, that would explain why WDW hasn't done it--they might not have felt they had any reason to upgrade 50+ pennies (about 17 machines). Many things I've read online call WDW, er, we'll say frugal, so the upgrades might be a tough sell to them.

http://www.parkpennies.com/1_dl_disneyland/dl1_disneyland_back_stamps.htm indicates that the earliest backstamped coin was a nickel, so when they occur on nickels, quarters, etc., that might just double as a "value added" to make you feel less silly for spending 80 cents to $1.25 to deface currency.

(I love pressed coins, though I only get the ones I like or love, and I don't even have a checklist . So I don't know if I'm really considered a true collector. I have never once felt silly spending 80 cents to $1.25 to deface currency, though. )