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

As a Christmas gift to myself, I went out and bid on a few coins.  In the end, everything I won are foriegn coins.  There are a few from Budapest and a group from Israel.  I’m looking foward to getting them in the mail and I’ll scan them in as soon as I do!

I used to purchase or trade for the Disney holiday nickels every year, but now I’m not sure who to turn to for these coins anymore

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

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:

Also, I’m starting to look for online coin suppliers. I have 7 boxes double row boxes for my US coins and they are overflowing Here’s a site (Brent-Krueger) that sells the boxes that I use. If you find a better price for these boxes during your searches, please let me know. Thanks!

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

• I added the island names to the city list on the Hawaii page. Now everything is sorted by island first and city second.

• The website counter is now using “views” instead of “visitors”. Using visitors is not really accurate since each visitor clocks a few counts per visit.

• The categories on the right hand side now lists the number of posts.

• Exploris coin from Raleigh, NC is retired.

• There were a few typos on my trade list, so please ask me to verify the coins you would like when you ask for a trade. Thanks!

New EC’s from Honolulu Zoo Honolulu, HI