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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Info Sponge, post: 874863, member: 20538&quot;]There have been previous threads about coins and rounds made from niobium, tantalum, titanium and so on:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t20534/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t20534/">http://www.cointalk.com/t20534/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t25815/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t25815/">http://www.cointalk.com/t25815/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t32549/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t32549/">http://www.cointalk.com/t32549/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting firm tries to make rounds, which they call &quot;coins&quot;, out of every possible element in the periodic table:</p><p><a href="http://www.elementsales.com/ecoins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.elementsales.com/ecoins.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.elementsales.com/ecoins.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But even with those as examples, would you ever have thought of mercury? Scroll to the bottom of <a href="http://www.georgesugarman.com/artpages/grantees/2003/tim%20blum.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.georgesugarman.com/artpages/grantees/2003/tim%20blum.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.georgesugarman.com/artpages/grantees/2003/tim blum.html</a>, which has dime and quarter replicas cast from frozen mercury.&nbsp; Lends new meaning to the term &quot;Mercury dime&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to resources in Googlespace, frozen mercury is fairly soft, so it should be possible to strike it instead of casting it. Dry ice temperatures are below the freezing point of mercury, so theoretically you wouldn&#039;t even need liquid nitrogen to do your mercury minting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antarctica could stop foreigners from taking their money outside the country, if Antarctica had money.</p><p><br /></p><p>This concludes your frivolity for the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: Don&#039;t try this at home, mercury is toxic, at room temperature it gives off mercury vapors, it needs to be handled as a hazardous material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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