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LOL, didn't read date on post. At least my spam radar is still intact!
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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).
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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.
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Thu Sep 24, 2009, 11:20pm
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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.
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Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:03am
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Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:49am
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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.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009, 03:32pm
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I've never had to use a coion, but in case I'll have to got to use one I think I prefer a "Gulden". That's the old dutch coin before we started using the Euro. I guess a "Gulden" has to be something like $0,60?
On the other hand, Sonny Pompillii bought me one off his personal made coins... I could use that one too...
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