Do you have any further information on the Pennsylvania Man that Obama just pardoned for mutilating coins back in the 60's?

There is hope for every coin dealer or collector who has mutilated a coin. You can eventually receive a presidential pardon even if you are caught, arrested and convicted. It happed this week to a 66-year old man who "sweated" cents to make them fit in dime vending machines in military barracks laundry, cigarette and soda machines 47 years ago.

In one of the most bizarre news items this week, President Barack Obama granted nine pardons, one of which was to Ronald Lee Foster of Beaver Falls, PA. As a U.S. Marine in 1963 he was fined $20 for reducing the size of cents -- the correct term is "sweating" -- to the size of dimes which he fed into nearby vending machine in the barracks where he was living. "Well, we were only making only $82 a month," said Foster in a recent interview. "We were using them in the washing machines, the dryers, the cigarette machines and the pop machines on the base in our barracks."

Foster, now 66, said he wasn't aware that he even had a felony conviction on his record until he applied for a gun permit in Pennsylvania five years ago and was denied. After getting out of the Marines in 1966, Foster returned to Pennsylvania and spent 27 years as a supervisor at a ceiling plant and also served on the local zoning board. He also spent 35 years as a volunteer firefighter.

His attorney had applied for the presidential pardon without his knowledge. Surprise! In a week where turkeys were pardoned at the White House, he also received the presidential reprieve.