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nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 09/19/2013 5:58 pm Someone posted this picture: So I took a cupro-nickel florin and tried filing down my own: But I doubt it'll work. Report this Post to the Staff

Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 09/19/2013 6:15 pm First pictures broken...are you making a hexagonal thingy, or is this simulating clips? Report this Post to the Staff
nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 09/19/2013 6:18 pm Heptagonal, the first picture is a half-crown ground down to the size of an old 50p. Since the new 50p is the size of a florin, I used one of those instead. The goal is, of course, to get it accepted in vending machines as 50p. (But I won't try it because I'm too attached to mine) Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 09/20/2013 12:17 am The minimum wage in Britain is currently £6.19/hour. So if it took you more than 12 and a half minutes to make, it literally wouldn't be worth your while making it. It would need to be the same weight, as well as the right size, to fool a vending machine. The edges would also have to be sufficiently rounded and symmetrical that the coin still rolls evenly. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Demarco Bishopp Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 548 Posts	Posted 09/20/2013 07:02 am You'll never get a vending machine to accept that piece of crap. They are very precise with weight. Report this Post to the Staff
peter1234 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1351 Posts	Posted 09/20/2013 08:08 am As a boy after decimalisation I used 1/2d's in 2p slot machines(480 1/2d's to £1....50 2p's to £1) On my honeymoon in Kenya I found they used the blanks for our 50p for a low value coin.Happy days. Report this Post to the Staff
andyg Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1324 Posts	Posted 09/21/2013 08:34 am The original ones were made by placing two coins in a vice, an (old size) 50p and a half crown, the half crown could then be filed rather neatly to the size of the 50p. Old vending machines were not as precise with weight as modern ones. Edited by andyg 09/21/2013 08:35 am Report this Post to the Staff
nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 09/21/2013 10:57 am This one, I'd have to use a belt sander to get its weight down. I used the same vice method, though. Report this Post to the Staff
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