-It's not a coin, but back in grade school/high school I would make a ring out of a dollar bill when bored in class.
-In technology class back in HS one of our projects was a competition to build a device to shoot/toss/fling a penny as far as possible.
-Pounded a nail through some pennies as a bored kid.
-Of course if your American and male and have never put a US penny on the RR tracks in your childhood, something wrong with you.
-Friends and I back in the day would have 'penny wars'. Every now and then they sting pretty bad when they hit you in a bad spot.
-I've seen pennies thrown out cars at other cars in road rage incidents.
-I threw a dime off the World Trade Center back in the 80's. You really couldn't get near the edge and they had lots of fences up there. I really had to chuck the thing to get it up and over when no one was looking.
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Haven't done this yet, but giving a lot of thought to it. I bought 10 lbs of world coins. After sitting for hours with a huge bulky Krause Catalog trying to identify them (no fun), finding no silver - in fact many are aluminum and I hate aluminum coins, no appeal what so ever, I gave up. There's a kid (kid-young child) that lives a couple of houses down. I'm thinking metal box buried with about 8 lbs of world coins and a treasure map in the mail addressed to him.
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CoyoteMoss that is a really neat thing to do. I think it would be a lifetime memory and probably make a heck of a collector out of the kid.
My dad did something similar. Growing up we had a nice spring-fed pond in the back yard. My brothers and I would swim all summer long. One day my dad said he 'saw something down there', dove off floating dock, and came up with this tube-shaped steel container. Us kids got all excited and ran inside to open it up. It was full of
Buffalo nickels, a gold jewelry chain, and old style skeleton key, and old photo of some guy, and some other historical looking stuff. I thought it was incredibly awesome and thought my dad found some type of time capsule. Our house was built in the mid-1800's so it made sense.
20 years later while reminiscing with my mother I mentioned that day. She informed me that my dad put the junk in the container and tossed it in the pond as something fun for us kids to discover and think about. Hearing the news that it was 'faked' was pretty disappointing however admiration for my father still increased.
Anyway, a treasure map for the local neighbor kid is a great idea. But from my experience just don't ever tell him it was you though because that takes the excitement out of it when you're a kid. Bonus points if you leave the map outside for like a week before mailing it so that it looks weathered and old. Maybe add some burn marks too.
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Posted 03/03/2011 07:49 am
