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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 439037, member: 15062&quot;]If an examination of the hold showed traces of lead or copper then in hight be genuine.&nbsp; However, a free-standing (or tossed in the air) coin would most likely only be dented or folded by a bullet&#039;s impact.&nbsp; I know this by experience using half dollars and both .45 ACP and .45 Long Colt ammo.&nbsp; Of course these are slow moving bullets with lots of mass.&nbsp; Maybe a lighter and faster bullet such as a FMJ 30-06 or .223 would work its way through a coin.&nbsp; Or a +p load .357 Magnum.&nbsp; Using these types of rounds, I think there is a good chance that the coin would be torn or split instead of holed, unless it was placed against a backdrop and hit point-blank.&nbsp; The myth of Wild West shooters doing this is false.&nbsp; Show people such as Annie Oakley and Wild Bill could, and did, do this but the &quot;coins&quot; they used were either softened copper or cast lead replicas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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