Train Track Smashed IHP

[Reelfoot Relics]

I had this little flattened piece of copper for about a year and I finally Identified it. It's a 1900 IHP. My first railroad flattened coin. Hope the pic shows the detail.

 

[markinmichigan]

I used to do that WAY back when....

Mark in Michigan

 

[hoser]

The closest RR track to us when I was growing up was around ten miles away, so flattening pennies was out of the question. I have found quite a few over the years detecting. Cool fine.

 

[CharlieT84]

Very cool find. As kids we used to put pennies on the track as well. A few years ago I detected the yard we grew up on and found one of those flattened pennies. Lost over 40 years ago. But it was just a stinkin lincoln. LOL Not an IHP like yours...Congrats!

 

[Fe Man]

That's cool and a fun find. I can picture a bunch of "Little Rascals" style characters being bored and putting one on the tracks. Wait a sec, taking inflation into account, and maybe giving this penny an additional 10 years before it was squished, a penny was worth about 33 cents in today's dollars. That's a lot of candy for a kid! So now I wonder when and why it was done?

Then again, I'm overthinking it.

 

[mine sweeper]

Coins getting flattened by a train passing over them usually brought older kids telling the younger kids to stop doing it because you could tip the train off the tracks. The kids I hung out with didn't buy it and continued to place their coins on the tracks. I never once witnessed a train tipping off the tracks. However, I did see quite a few pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters get flattened and elongated and turned into useless pieces of metal. Of course, a Hershey bar back then was 10¢ and not $2.99 and a new car was under $2,000.00 the times have sure changed.

 

[longbow62]

Cool, I've found several train flattened pennies, but have never been able to see any details to make out what they were. I've wondered how many were IHPs.

 

[sube]

Coins getting flattened by a train passing over them usually brought older kids telling the younger kids to stop doing it because you could tip the train off the tracks. The kids I hung out with didn't buy it and continued to place their coins on the tracks. I never once witnessed a train tipping off the tracks. However, I did see quite a few pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters get flattened and elongated and turned into useless pieces of metal. Of course, a Hershey bar back then was 10¢ and not $2.99 and a new car was under $2,000.00 the times have sure changed.

Come on hershey bars were a nickel for a big one and 3 cents for a small one and I got 25 cents a week for allowance and I did not crush my precious money on the tracks till I got older . sube

 

[Saker]

We put all kinds of coins and tokens on tracks when I was a kid. Nice find that brings back memories!

 

[Reelfoot Relics]

I found it on the outskirts of town about 3 miles from the tracks. They could of got to smashed on their Saturday trip to town.

 

[Reelfoot Relics]

This was the other finds that day along with the smashed penny. I was wrong it was from august of '22

 

[Jamflicker]

That's pretty cool!