Pressed Penny Machine Map

I love penny smashers. I have a paradoxical attitude toward souvenirs: on one hand, I like to have reminders of places I've visited as well as a physical token of "proof" that I've been there; on the other hand, I hate household clutter and don't like to spend money on what amounts to junk. Penny smashers fill a perfect role. They are literally a token of proof that I've been to a place, while also taking up almost no space and being very cheap.

Are these a thing outside the US?

For anyone who's not familiar: all over the place at tourist attractions and airports you can find mechanical presses that will squish a penny with an embossed image. You pick one of 4 images, put in your penny + a couple of quarters and then turn a big crank handle until your newly pressed penny comes out the other side. You'd then collect squished pennies in a little collector's folio/pouch/thing for later viewing.

I guess now that pennies are getting phased out they'll have to "upgrade" the machines to work with other coins...

If you are into the ones at Walt Disney World, https://www.presscoins.com/

There used to be one at the World Trade Center. Before 9/11.

You don't see a lot of sites that use a window.alert() to tell you to sign up like that... would love an about us to know who had the passion to make this.

There's also https://www.pennycollector.com/

I feel an urge to visit and fill in data for all the nearby ones.

I hate how they don’t actually press the penny. They have a whole stack of blanks to use.

At least, not a single one I’ve seen.

Does anyone know how to get a "good" penny for these machines? Often mine are hard to interpret when they're done and just look like a garbled mess. Do I need a penny that is sufficiently old or what