Gold

[AtW]

I like to drill mine out and fill them with lead and then sell them back

Well, when you steal one gold coin, you can just disappear. When you drill whole gold bar, they will find you, unless they think you're already dead.

[MarillionFan]

You can fool machines by filing 50p pieces down to make 10p pieces.........

Hang on......

Old 10p's wrapped in silver foil would fool old slot machines into thinking they were 50ps.



Cough. I heard.

[DimPrawn]

Old 10p's wrapped in silver foil would fool old slot machines into thinking they were 50ps.



Cough. I heard.

[TestMangler]

Old 10p's wrapped in silver foil would fool old slot machines into thinking they were 50ps.



Cough. I heard.

I 'heard' that too and I 'heard' that they worked in cigarette machines back in the days when fags were £1.50 a pack.

I also 'heard' that you could mould 50p pieces from ice and put them in the gas meter and electricity meters in your student flat and I 'heard' that you could use a hair dryer on the base of the coin box to evaporate said ice 50p making your fraud untraceable (other than using lots of gas/elec and there being no money in the coin box). I only 'heard' this though.

[TimberWolf]

I heard two (old) 5p pieces made a new pound, but the dimensions aren't perfect.

The 1968 [to 1990] version of the coin weighed 5.65 grams and had a diameter of 23.59 millimetres, thickness 1.7mm.

Amount		: Diameter	 	Thickness	Weight
--------------------------------------------------------------
2 * 5p		: 23.59,		3.4mm,		11.3g            
One pound	: 22.5 mm,		3.15 mm,	9.5 g

[MarillionFan]

Thoughts for today?

Markets rallied around the world on well....nothing, Greece is still default, £ still to devalue more, Gold to go up and Torquay to win the 2nd division.

[TimberWolf]

[TimberWolf]

Just went skyward for some reason. Expect some economic news.

[KentPhilip]

I 'heard' that too and I 'heard' that they worked in cigarette machines back in the days when fags were £1.50 a pack.

I also 'heard' that you could mould 50p pieces from ice and put them in the gas meter and electricity meters in your student flat and I 'heard' that you could use a hair dryer on the base of the coin box to evaporate said ice 50p making your fraud untraceable (other than using lots of gas/elec and there being no money in the coin box). I only 'heard' this though.

Wouldn't the hair dryer use 50p's worth of electricity rendering the whole process rather pointless?

[Paddy]

I like to drill mine out and fill them with lead and then sell them back.

Ratners used to do that. Also ther used to be coin clipping.

Coin clipping