by Know Common Cents » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:38 pm
Interesting that topic has been brought up. A friend of the family (now 84 years old) told me a few weeks ago that he used those large pennies in slot machines during the Korean War. This was somewhare in the Far East. He said he kept playing until he was getting the ones back as winnings that he'd just put in the machine. Quite a novel way to fill ones pockets with half dollars.
"I don't know what I'm doin' but I'm sure havin' fun" Herman Munster
I've recently adopted the Groucho Marx philosophy for dealing with politics and other life challenges, "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" (Horse Feathers 1932)