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New EC’s from Museum of Life and Science Durham, NC
New EC’s from NC Museum of History Raleigh, NC

Wishing everyone a smashing year!

I wanna give a big thanks here to Adam who helped me with my copper penny supplies!! I pressed a few coins on the PA turnpike with the coins (the cat mint can comes in handy too). Hopefully I’ll get to scan in those coins soon.

While driving through the Ohio Turnpike, I’ve noticed that many of the service area machines have been replaced. Next weekend, I’ll try to get a more recent set of coins from the turnpike. In the meanwhile, the status for the old coins are marked “retired”.

Here are some trades with Paul from the end of 2008:
New EC’s from Museum of Life and Science Durham, NC

Andy and I spent half a day at Gettysburg today. This was our first visit, so I decided not to bring a list of machine locations with me.
We stopped at the visitor’s center and purchased a CD for the auto tour, which I strongly recommend for anyone visiting the national park.

There are two machines at the museum shop:
New EC’s from Gettysburg Battlefield Museum Gettysburg, PA

No more procrastination! Today I scanned and categorized all my backlog EC’s. The whole thing took me 7 hours.

These are from trades:
From Charlie & Faith Rose -
New EC from World Bird Sanctuary Valley Park, MO
New EC’s from Grant’s Farm St. Louis, MO

From Don -
New EC’s from Ethel M Chocolates Henderson, NV
New EC’s from Rolling Hills Zoo Salina, KS
New EC from Carousel Family Entertainment Seaside Heights, NJ
New EC’s from the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument Kearney, NE

From Larry -
New EC’s from Adventure Aquarium Camden, NJ
New EC’s from Knoebels Lysburg, PA

These are from the Hawaii trip:
New EC’s from Waikiki Aquarium Honolulu, HI
New EC’s from Hanauma Bay Gift Shop Honolulu, HI
New EC’s from USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park Honolulu, HI
New EC’s from Dole Plantation Wahiawa, HI
New EC’s from Kualoa Ranch Kaaawa, HI

These are from the DC trip (back in November):
New EC’s from Post Expression Washington DC (trades for these are available)
New EC’s from Washington Welcome Center Washington DC (trades for these are available)

Trivia for everyone! Here is a humuhumunukunukuapua, state fish of Hawaii:

I went to the National Zoo again today. Last time I went, 3 out of the 7 machines there were gone and I promised other collectors that I’d get them all. When I visited today, one of the machines (Orangutan) was moved near the Reptile House and another (Mei Xiang and cub) was modified to take dollar bills at the Ape House. A new three-die machine is now in the cafeteria. It takes dollar bills and provides its own pennies, which unfortunately are zincs…

Check out the new designs! Scroll down to the bottom of the National Zoo page, the last three are from the new machine:
New EC’s from the National Zoological Park Washington DC

Happy Friday! It’s finally the weekend, hopefully I’ll have some time to unpack as well as scan coins.
More coins from O’ahu:

New EC’s from Honolulu Zoo Honolulu, HI

New EC from Cabela’s Hazelwood, MO (traded with Charlie and Faith Rose)

Just got back from Hawaii! I met a couple of EC collectors while pressing coins on O’ahu. Hopefully they’ll visit my site!
I didn’t expect so many machines on the island and underestimated the rolls of quarters and pennies needed. I must have spent around $50 for pressing pennies.
The coins will be scanned and uploaded in batches, here are a few to start with:

King’s Village is off of the main road down Waikiki Beach. Many of the machines in the area are within walking distance, including the Honolulu Zoo, the Waikiki Aquarium, machines at the King’s Village, and International Market.
New EC’s from Rock Island Cafe Honolulu, HI

Filling in backlogs from the DC trades. I’ll still need to go to the National Zoo to see if the machines have returned.

New EC from Bigfoot 4×4 Hazlewood, MO (traded with Charlie and Faith Rose)

When I realized that some of the machines were gone from the National Zoo, I went to a few other locations. Here’s one of them:

New EC’s from National Aquarium Washington DC