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What is going on here? My wife received this in her change recently. I am suspecting that somehow the steel core planchette was removed, and then the outer halves were broken; it looks like the four pieces were epoxied together. Has anyone seen or heard of anything like this?     |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Spend it before it falls apart. PMD |
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United States
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Spend it before it falls apart.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
514 Posts |
I was going to go to my bank today to exchange toonie rolls for loonie rolls - I'll be exchanging this at the same time.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting bit of work...
..for a buck..I would keep it as a study piece..
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Pillar of the Community
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9864 Posts |
 keep it "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1285 Posts |
definitely Keep it ! Great conversation piece besides being a nice study piece. Price seems right too.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
514 Posts |
it's already gone.
I am not a fam of todays plated steel garbage;
If it was a fake, I'd be more interested in it than this.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Its called a Bite Coin. There is an elastic band holding the coin together and the elastic is in the gap along the edge.
I have owned a couple of them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Magicians use these coins and pretend to bite a coin in half while actually folding the cut piece over and then right in front of your eyes wham...he will let the cut piece go and the elastic will snap it back into place while the magician pretends to blow the piece out of his mouth. The eye is too slow to catch the illusion.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think darryldarryl is right!
Interesting... Definitely looks like a bite coin by the way the cuts are curved, and what looks like elastic in the middle.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well if it does fall apart all you need is a new rubber band...lol
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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A byte is 8 bits so it would be 8 bitcoins wouldn't it?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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So I have a related question; If this is in fact a magicians "coin", and not a coin that someone figured out how to pull the steel planchette out from (and subsequently epoxied back together); How is this not deemed as a counterfeit? Wouldn't owning one of these be constituted as illegal - punishable by the law (as it has been made so abundantly clear to me for my interest in THESE? |
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Its not a fake coin.
Its the real McCoy so to speak.
You can get them in quarters, loonie and toonies etc.
Google search Bite Coin....not Bitcoin. :)
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Posted 10/24/2015 12:52 pm
