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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3229831, member: 112"]I can't recall it ever having been covered in a numismatic article but I have a long, long history, going back almost 60 years, of using coins for targets, both aerial and stationary. And I have posted about that before. And I personally know of many others who have done the same thing. It's even been done repeatedly in many long running TV series and numerous movies. So to my way of thinking that certainly qualifies as usage in daily life. Even this very day, somebody, somewhere, is shooting at coins. In addition, over the years I have used coins for all sorts of things. As spacers, washers, even used them as wheels on toy models before, as well as other things already mentioned by others. Lastly, and this has been posted about many, many times, and in actual numismatic articles, coins have used in all kinds of art work, from being embedded in bars at an actual bar, to being embedded in toilet seats, to wall displays, to being used as flooring material, and used to make 3 dimensional art objects. For that matter coins have even been commonly used as weapons - in several different ways. And if I sat here and thought about it long enough I could probably come up with more.[/QUOTE]