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Mark Waddington wrote:Surely this will make a coin bend harder to accomplish then?

funny you should mention coin bend, my weekend is becoming full of strange coincidences

I was out with friends last night and no quicker than arriving and ordering my first pint I was asked to do a trick

now I don't have a coin bend gimmick but in that situation what was handed to me with my change can be described as extreme magicians luck, I still don't know how I contained my self when I felt what was in my hand

no switch necessary, the coin that was given to me by the bar lady clearly placed straight in my friends hand, a tight squeeze and a mini miracle

This just in, I've had a few drinks but a 2012 5p has stuck to my PK ring. 5ps appear to now be magnetic. HUZZAH!!!

I've just moved to New Zealand and silver coins are magnetic!

There's a huge lack of gaff coins and magic shops here though. So if anyone is a coin maker there's a huge gap in the market on this side of the world!

Blake

JammyT wrote:

magicrob wrote:I got a little excited, when I saw the story on the BBC, too...then I got thinking, and realised that this could actually become something of a double-edged sword, for those of us who use e****ded ]'s.

It may be time to start hoarding a collection of non-M******c 10p's and 5p's

I am already doing this - my GF thinks i've gone mad hoarding 5 and 10 pence pieces

The steel is a problem for me (especially the 5p) with a couple of my coin unique routines

Do you reckon I can get my money back for m******c 10p?

As it will now be useless.

Are you still hoardibng 5p and 10p coins ? How big is your collection now ?

BigShot wrote:They can dress it up however they like, but we're just being ripped off again.

Eh? I don't see how. The face value is not changing, so why do you feel ripped off?

It seems to be a throwback to when the monetary value of coinage was to do with their actual composition rather than (as has been the case for a long time) coins and notes representing an abstract value of money which is unrelated to their actual cost. Coinage is best thought of as being a token rather than "money" in the old sense.
Does that make sense? It does in my head!

One day people will be trying to do Coins Across using two people's paypal accounts...

*reads email from Nigeria*

Hmm, wait, I think that already happens...