Oddest Things You've Done With Coins

Oh, Cheetahcats reminded me off this.We used to go down to the train tracks and make "coin sandwiches" which consisted of piling a couple of coins on top of each other and waiting for a train to come along and pound them together.Also,we would find the points that set of the train gates down the road,and with a 20 cent piece in each hand we would rub the points untill the gates went down,sometimes theyd get stuck to!!such wicked children!!

There's a car here in Toronto that has hundreds of shiny pennies superglued to the body. I haven't seen it in years. I wonder how the car tones. :D

I used to play bloody knuckles as a kid. I got pretty good at it.
Also, you can rewind a VHS cassette with a quarter.

There's a bar in Marysville, California called "the Silver Dollar". The bar is acrylic and filled with hundreds of Mexican peso coins. Silver? Dunno, haven't been there in a dozen years and then I didn't silver Pesos from the others.

I've put more than a few coins in slot machines over the years.

It's kind of like magic, in a way.

Now you see it, now you don't.

I've been reminded of how I paid for laundry in college. The machines where you lay money flat were easy. You set in the money, then cover it with duct tape. When you push in the coin mechanism it reads that they are there, but the duct tape prevents them from falling into the machine. Pull out the mechanism and you usually got all the quarters back. The machines where you set the quarters on edge were much harder. It required using the stiffest tape you can find and rigging each separate quarter. If you were skilled and lucky you would push in the mechanism but hold the tape the quarters were attached to. If the quarters fell down, you still were holding the tape. You could get back your quarters about half the time this way.

I had several chemistry sets as a kid, and I would heat Jefferson nickels over a Bunsen burner to an interesting blue-black color. I'd make these in large quantities and spend them in our small town. People wondered where they came from.

I also did chem class pranks with coins. What I would do is heat a copper/zinc penny, then smack it on the chem table to split the copper and zinc. I would then take the zinc and put it in a beaker of hydrochloric acid. The zinc would react releasing hydrogen. I'd put another jar over the beaker and collect the hydrogen. Last I would take the jar of hydrogen tip it a bit to mix in some oxygen and then stick a lit punk inside and make mini explosions. Use to startle my chem teacher lol. So, yeah I used to blow up pennies.

And their kids won't know what a penny is.


I irradiated silver coins in a nuclear reactor. A few of the silver atoms would get activated by the neutrons and become radioactive enough to set off a geiger counter.