Pressed pennies?

[flyingteepee]

I'd love to have some pressed pennies for souvenirs. I've read on previous post about having a whole roll. Do the machines make different pressed pennies, or are they all the same? So how many pennies do I need to bring with me? Also what about quarters?

 

[Rikku]

Each penny press generally has about three or so choices of designs to choose from and almost every attraction has a penny press. I'm not certain how many presses this would amount to and I wouldn't even venture a guess as to how many pennies you'd need if you wanted to collect them all.

There are quarter presses as well but not as many. In fact I think there's a data base roaming around here somewhere that points out most of the presses but for the life of me I don't know where I put mine.

 

[Memaw2Wm]

Oops ... somehow posted twice and I can get this one to delete :-(

 

[Memaw2Wm]

My grandkids had a great time collecting pressed, or "smooshed" as they called them, pennies last summer.

I saved quarters and pennies for months in advanced, then put 20 quarters and 10 pennies each in a bunch of snack size ziplock baggies.

We bought penny press collection holder thingies at the Emporium in MK ... I think they were about $6 each. If I remember correctly they held 36 smooshed pennies and 6 smooshed quarters.

The total cost was $31.86:

$6.00 — holder
$18.36 — 36 pennies @ 51¢ each
$7.50 — 6 quarters @ $1.25 each

Wm and Cissy loved searching for the penny presses, choosing which penny(ies) they wanted/needed and then pressing the pennies. And nearly a year later they love pulling out their holders and looking at the pennies. They are looking forward to collecting another batch this summer!

 

[Gytchy]

You should look at these pages....

This one talks about the pennies

wdwig.com/penny.htm

and these are lists of the machines and different designs at WDW.

wdwig.com/pennylist.htm

liss.olm.net/ec/disney/wdw/

 

[flyingteepee]

Thanks, Gytchy! That www.wdwig.com/pennylist.htm site is great. So specific on where the machines are located and what they print. We are first timers so I don't want to spend a lot time looking for penny machines. We may just do some at CBR after checking in as we aren't going to the parks on check-in day. And the kids don't know we are even going to WDW so I'm not sure what souvenirs will interest them.

Thanks again.

 

[Scarlett & Rhett]

My kids love to get the pressed pennies. The pennies are so cool looking too.