Oddest Things You've Done With Coins

It was not I who committed this terrible crime against the natural order, but possibly some unknown silver crafter from shop class of yore, scavenging a scrap for a project unknown.
I shall post it nonetheless.

I present to you . . .


MS PAC-MAN Barber dime:




munch munch munch !

We lived in Scotland when my dad was in the Airforce,1963-1968. My mother brought an old mantle clock and a sock full of british pennies home. That mantle clock would get out of balance and my mom would stack up those pennies under the clock edges/corners. I remember that she would sometimes have 5 to 8 pennies stacked up under each leg! I remember also that on eof those pennies was dated 1861!

thanks mysilveryears!

that pacman coin looks real nice, reminds me of my high school days when we played the pacman video game, no cell phones yet

I embedded an 1887 Morgan in the center of a large, outdoor deck I put on. I enclosed it in a Cointain and carved out a circle just deep enough for it to be level. Glued it in the deck where it still sits today. I sold that house 10 years ago and had to explain to the new owners that even though the coin was BU it was not worth it to pry it out. They thought it was worth a small fortune ! Funny thing is last time I went to take a look at it, the son of the current owners had started collecting coins, telling me that having that Morgan dollar "stuck in the deck" sparked his interest. That made my day and I ended up giving him some Walkers and a couple of other coins to help start him off.

Excellent story and a great thing you did!

I used scrap large cents to make a couple DC bus bars for my solar panel project. Worked great.

A a boy I started making penny bracelets. My mother always had copper pennies taped to her wrists for some pain she had. she appreciated it and I made many more.

Many states have laws againt throwing anything from above a certain height.



An old trick for a buck's worth of lunch hour fun on construction projects was to spot weld a dollar to a steel beam. Another version: weld nail to coin, hammer into board.

Another good one for busy areas. Lay a quarter somewhere flat, put a drop of superglue on top.



Concrete workers used to put a cent in the middle of each section of curbing. Believe it or not, people would break them out, sometimes damaging things to the point where the curb had to be replaced.