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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 288722, member: 66"]Sensitive metal detectors. They are able to detect the fillings in your teeth, if you have had a pin inserted for a broken bone etc. and I'm sure they know how strong a reading they should get for each person and where those reading are concentrated. If your reading is different or changes, or if the reading area changes (especially if it changes from when you came in this morning) you had better be able to explain it and be ready for a more invasive search.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I'm not sure if they have gone to that extreme or not, but the technology to do so does exist. I do know of one person who was able to take a floor tour at the mint. They were told to remove all coins from their posession before the tour began and they had to go through a metal detectorat the end. The detector spotted a dime he had forgotten and left in his pocket. (He had to surrender the dime.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 288722, member: 66"]Sensitive metal detectors. They are able to detect the fillings in your teeth, if you have had a pin inserted for a broken bone etc. and I'm sure they know how strong a reading they should get for each person and where those reading are concentrated. If your reading is different or changes, or if the reading area changes (especially if it changes from when you came in this morning) you had better be able to explain it and be ready for a more invasive search. Now I'm not sure if they have gone to that extreme or not, but the technology to do so does exist. I do know of one person who was able to take a floor tour at the mint. They were told to remove all coins from their posession before the tour began and they had to go through a metal detectorat the end. The detector spotted a dime he had forgotten and left in his pocket. (He had to surrender the dime.)[/QUOTE]
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