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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I read that a prevalent scam in the 80s was to glue two Austrian schilling coins together. They would be accepted in British vending machines as pound coins:  In the same vein as "racketeer" nickels, does anyone own a contemporary "glued" schilling? |
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Valued Member
United States
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That's very interesting, I've never heard of that
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That is interesting. I hadn't heard of that. I do remember British 2 pence coins would often pass for loonies in various vending machines in Canada after the loonie was issued.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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British 5 pences would work in West German phone boxes as 1 Mark, quite a saving in those days.
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 Canada
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Well, I took a couple of schillings and hot-glued my own. With hot glue, it gets a bit of extra weight and thickness, which makes it more passable.
You'd think there would be lots of these floating around, though...
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Valued Member
Austria
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yes the 5 pence was great - worked also in cigarette automates in germany ;-)
nice deal when we were young ;-)
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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In the same way in the 60s, British servicemen returning to Germany from leave in the UK would be routinely searched for the large bags of shillings they always seemed to be carrying. Absolutely nothing to do with its Mark-like size and weight. No Sir.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Interesting - first time I've heard of Glue Schillings! The 1974-88 French 10-franc piece was roughly the same size as the British 2p. The big supermarkets in Calais and Boulogne on the French north coast had shopping carts that needed a 10F coin as a deposit, which you got back when the cart was returned. A British 2p (worth one-fiftieth of 10F) would work in the shopping carts. Young boys would often hang around the parking lots of the supermarkets waiting for Brits who needed a shopping cart. They would approach them with the shopping cart they were just returning and the grateful Brit would hand them 10 francs, take the cart and go shopping. They would only realise they'd been scammed when they returned the shopping cart and out popped a 2p!  Edited by NumisRob
09/16/2013 4:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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There are also Korean 500 won coins that have been abraded or drilled in order to get their weight down to that of the Japanese 500 yen coin... can you find these anywhere, either?
I'm interested in a little collection of contemporarily modified coins that were souped up in order to pass in vending machines.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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this one is quite amusing - it must have taken a reasonable amount of effort...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Good one, nalaberong!
I'd heard of halfcrowns being filed down to pass as 50p coins, but this is the first one I've ever seen!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Today I found out that vending machines accept 1-francs as Canadian quarters.
Time to watch the world burn... (these can be found in countless 20/10/5-cent junk bins and are demonetized)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Years ago, when I worked at a restaurant, we would catch some kids using Greek 2 Drachmai coins in the video games--they were close enough to work as US quarters.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The half-crown trick only works for the old big 50ps though, right?
Nowadays you'd need a florin.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well, I tried to make my own. After about 10 minutes of filing, I might have made 40p. But it was fun!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Very nice!
As for the new 50p question I think it's too thin to work from a florin / half crown.....
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Posted 09/15/2013 6:45 pm
