Penny Bliss

What’s the best part of any vacation or travel experience for me? Elongated pennies and coins from a penny machine. I *love* them, I collect them, and I’ve got a ton! One of my three favorite coins was actually made on a hand-crank penny press outside of a gas station in Texas at 2 in the morning. It had kind of an old-timey, almost Coney Island look to it – small, 4 glass walls, the entire frame looked like it was made out of wrought iron and it had a little wooden shingle roof that almost made it look like a circus tent from aways away, which is what initially caught my eye, and the penny it made had the Lone Star symbol on it and said “The Stars At Night Are Shining Bright” in a sort of old West-style font. I adore it, and I’m not really a fan of Texas, but that penny is easily in my top 4! I love penny machines, I need one of my own, lol. I wish, honestly, that I could get an old, out of date one from Disneyland when they send their junk off to surplus – that would make my year!

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