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Oddest Things You've Done With Coins

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 Posted 08/11/2017  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JeBipp to your friends list
I accidentally ate a dime as a little kid...... don't ask me how I accidentally did it XD
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 Posted 08/11/2017  10:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
When I was a little kid I pounded the heck out of a penny on a block of iron with my fathers hammer . End results was a paper thin piece of copper which I still have somewhere in my collection .
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 Posted 08/11/2017  11:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list
As a kid, put nickels on train tracks, scotch taped a nickel to an M-80, swallowed a nickel(had to keep checking to be sure it came out...you know how...),

Must a had a thing with nickels...?


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 Posted 08/12/2017  11:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list
Spent picket change without checking it for errors
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 Posted 08/13/2017  12:21 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
Oddest thing?

To most people, I'd say paying multiples over face or metal value for a currently circulating coin.

Think about it.


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Must a had a thing with nickels...?


It seems more like a thing against nickels.
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 Posted 08/13/2017  01:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chipjones to your friends list
Biggfredd, Here's how you pick up a dime with a forklift.

Tilt forks down so the tip is on the edge of the dime and then back up with a little luck the dime will flip and land on fork.
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 Posted 08/13/2017  02:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
4 or so all bronze pennies are good to place at the bottom of a toilet cistern. They keep the water clean and stop the growth of brown algae.
The copper in the pennies is poisonous to brown cistern algae.
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 Posted 08/13/2017  04:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add starnote to your friends list
I tried to put a half dollar coin in my friend's giant ear lobe piercing.
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 Posted 08/13/2017  09:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JeBipp to your friends list
Yep jbuck it is I love these funny stories!
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As a kid, I pounded pennies with a hammer and bent a few in a vise. In my early 20's I shot a few quarters with a .270 rifle, and I still have one of those. Also in my early 20' I accidentally swallowed a quarter during a drinking game. I typically won those games, but I never saw that quarter again. My adult son occasionally makes corncob pipes, and when he's finished, he will epoxy a nickel (buffalo or shield) to the underside of the cob.
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 Posted 08/14/2017  11:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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I tried to put a half dollar coin in my friend's giant ear lobe piercing.
Pictures, or it did not happen!
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 Posted 08/14/2017  1:09 pm  Show Profile   Check NumisRob's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add NumisRob to your friends list
Not quite in the same category, but yesterday evening I wandered down to the beach to have a swim. I needed some milk, so took a two-pound coin with me so that I could buy some at the little shop in the gas station by the beach. I put my towel on the beach and wrapped the coin in it. When I got out of the water, I unfurled the tower and dried myself. I then dressed and walked to the gas station. Guess what - I had no money for the milk!

Amazingly, in fading light, I managed to retrace my footsteps on the shingle, and after around 15 minutes I found the two-pound coin!
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Amazingly, in fading light, I managed to retrace my footsteps on the shingle, and after around 15 minutes I found the two-pound coin!
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 Posted 08/14/2017  8:45 pm  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list

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Here's how you pick up a dime with a forklift.

Tilt forks down so the tip is on the edge of the dime and then back up with a little luck the dime will flip and land on fork.


I totally forgot about that! I did that with quarters. I did manage to pick two at once.
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