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Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby sam1978 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:19 am

Sorry, to anyone looking for a link to a super cheap magic site the story is a little more luck based than anything else.
My Girlfriend was given some pound coins in her change on the Bus back from Nottingham recently and when going through her purse in the pub later that day, found that something rather unusual was happening with this pound coin and some 2 pences. So instead of spending it she showed it to me.
I clicked straight away what it might be and asked her if she'd let me have it. Being the tight #### that she is we ended up agreed to swap a pound for a pound.

I checked it out and sure enough it was a slightly battered unique coin (though this sort of added to the authenticity of a regular coin).
This worked out great and did some impromptu magic for my friends few things for other people in the pub that night.

So that's my happy tale about my new (old) magic trick, the only sad part about the story is that some poor person out there has had rather more expensive bus trip than they bargained for.
My old TM name Sam:monkeyfist back on here after a bit of a gap
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Ste Porterfield » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:22 am

I am sure that one day I will use mine in a vending machine or something..
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Alfred Borden » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:24 pm

Was worried about this that my £1 coin unique lives with my 10p/2p coin unique

I think it was Mandrake that said he scans every £1 with a magnet and has had no luck, wait til his back from holiday and reads this!
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Dye Vernon » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:48 pm

I've not once, but TWICE spent one in a vending machine.
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Ste Porterfield » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:59 pm

I keep mine in one of those plastic SD card holders. Too often before did I find myself with it muddled with change.
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby spooneythegoon » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:57 pm

Lucky git! I check all my pound coins and have not found one so far (I am sure I am not the only one to tight to actually buy one!).
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby bigal1 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:56 pm

My mom got one from Tesco.

She showed me how a copper/steel coin can cling to a pond coin.

Yes, it was Coin Unique.

I thought it would NEVER happen to me but it did.

The odds are greater than winning £10/£20 ponds on a lottery.
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby m1735h » Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:28 pm

Ste feel free to spend it in the hotel bar ;)

But I would give it back :)
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Ste Porterfield » Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:31 pm

m1735h wrote:Ste feel free to spend it in the hotel bar ;)

But I would give it back :)


Mine is the 10/2 version. Those denominations are not required at the prices the hotel charge! :wink:
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Mandrake » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:52 pm

Alfred Borden wrote:Was worried about this that my £1 coin unique lives with my 10p/2p coin unique

I think it was Mandrake that said he scans every £1 with a magnet and has had no luck, wait til his back from holiday and reads this!

I'm back and I'm still scanning but I still haven't found one!
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Re: Great Result, bought a unique coin for a £1

Postby Stuart C » Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:26 pm

Got drunk one night and spent my 10p and 2p from Hopping Half's, lift with just the shell
My mother always told me I was unique,
just like everyone else!
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