Where to get a coin?

NCASAUmp · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 11:41am

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Originally Posted by Dholloway1962

Am I just cynical or does this seem like someone set up a spam posting? Lee comes on here and posts about coins. Suddenly, spirit pins comes on here and makes very first post about coins???? Seems awfully suspicious to me, or maybe it's just the cop in me!!!

I doubt it. Spirit waited nearly 5 years before answering this post.

Skahtboi · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 12:54pm

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

I doubt it. Spirit waited nearly 5 years before answering this post.

Wow! That WAS a well thought out SPAM set up!!!

IRISHMAFIA · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 01:01pm

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

I doubt it. Spirit waited nearly 5 years before answering this post.

Well, I heard people in Washington were a little slow

AtlUmpSteve · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 01:04pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Well, I heard people in Washington were a little slow

Crap. You just woke up (apparently taking a break) SRW.

Dholloway1962 · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 03:36pm

LOL, didn't read date on post. At least my spam radar is still intact!

greymule · #6 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 08:17pm

Throughout an entire high-level SP tournament, I used a "gold" coin I found in the parking lot when I arrived. Actually, it was a "token" intended for use in certain, uh . . . entertainment arcades.

On the obverse (heads), the token depicted the figure of a young woman from the waist up; the reverse (tails) depicted the figure from the waist down. I will leave it to readers of this post to divine what degree of clothing was depicted on this figure. This flip coin was quite successful. Though players were accustomed to ASA flip coins, I received compliments on it throughout the tournament.

I believe it is of socio-anthropological interest that in all 28 games I did over the four days, everyone whose duty it was to call "heads" or "tails" made the same call (in the vernacular, of course).

IRISHMAFIA · #7 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 09:15pm

A local umpire uses a Lincoln penny......that's six inches in diameter.

Gets a few chuckles, but everyone pays attention when he tosses it in the air.

wadeintothem · #8 (**permalink**) Thu Sep 24, 2009, 11:20pm

ha thats funny

Although I have many coins, I just use a silver dollar I've used for a long time.

I know of some smart umps that may have on occasion used coins with Ambiguous head/tail .. for home team purposes.. I'm not that brave though.

#9 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 25, 2009, 08:36am

One umpire I worked with a couple weeks ago in a Sunday afternoon SP coed league is a wrestling official as well. You can guess...yes, he used the red/green wrestling flipping coin.

Tru_in_Blu · #10 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:49am

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

A local umpire uses a Lincoln penny......that's six inches in diameter.

Gets a few chuckles, but everyone pays attention when he tosses it in the air.

I have something similar - a buffalo nickel that is 3 inches in diameter. When the family went to Disney World a few years ago, my son purchased about 20 of these 3 inch coins of various denominations and eras. He lost interest in them, so I commandeered the buffalo nickel as my coin of choice. And I only do one flip - heads, the 3B dugout team is home; tails, the 1B dugout team is home. And some coaches still whine if they're not home... "never even got a chance to call it!" Maybe they should just do "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock".

CecilOne · #11 (**permalink**) Mon Sep 28, 2009, 01:21pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

A local umpire uses a Lincoln penny......that's six inches in diameter.

Gets a few chuckles, but everyone pays attention when he tosses it in the air.

And I back up 2 steps when I see it.

#12 (**permalink**) Mon Sep 28, 2009, 02:43pm

Reading some of this reminds me of the time I used a casino dollar (it looked like a silver dollar, but with a steamboat on the tail side, and Mark Twain on the head side) during an Utrip state qualifier tournament in small city in Nebraska. It was a college town, so naturally there was a whole team of college boys (who were a bit on the tipsy side) in the tournament. When I had them for one game, their coach came out, and when I showed both coaches the coin, the college boy said "hot damn blue!" After the flip, he turned around and told his boys, "we got a cool blue! He's got a casino dollar!" I looked at the other coach and just shook my head. I knew this was going to get ugly. The college boys proceeded to get their collective a**es kicked by the mercy rule on their way out of the tournament.

bniu · #13 (**permalink**) Sun Oct 04, 2009, 09:41pm

get a double headed quarter. See how long it takes before a coach realizes it, especially if you only show them one side of it.