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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;juris klavins, post: 4146943, member: 76693&quot;]More sophisticated hollow coins have been used for espionage activities throughout history: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On June 22, 1953, a newspaper boy (fourteen-year-old Jimmy Bozart<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>), collecting for the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Eagle" rel="nofollow">Brooklyn Eagle</a></i>, at an apartment building at 3403 Foster Avenue in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" rel="nofollow">New York City</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" rel="nofollow">borough</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" rel="nofollow">Brooklyn</a>, was paid with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)" rel="nofollow">nickel</a> (U.S. five-cent piece) that felt too light to him. When he dropped it on the ground, it popped open, revealing that it contained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform" rel="nofollow">microfilm</a>. The microfilm contained a series of numbers. He told the daughter of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" rel="nofollow">New York City Police Department</a> officer, and that officer told a detective who in two days told an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" rel="nofollow">FBI</a> agent about the strange nickel.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case#cite_note-FBI-Abel-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case#cite_note-FBI-Abel-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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