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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 825696, member: 4552&quot;]That and most of the rest of the answers are just the modern interpretations of what has been going on for as long as there have been coins. People drilled holes in them a long, long time ago. In the so called old wild West it was always part of those shows to shoot a coin. Even on a TV show not long ago someone had a coin that was supposed to have been shot by Annie Oakly. Remember that guy named George Washington? He too tried to throw a coin accross a river. Jewlers have been melting them down for as long as people wanted jewlery. And as long as there are RR tracks, kids just have to see what a train will do to a coin. People flip them to see who pays for coffee. At football games they flip them to see who goes first. They are placed under a new mat of concrete for good luck. </p><p>There are probably as many reasons to destroy a coin as there are coins. And very, very, very few have to do with the value. And it&#039;s not just pennies. People do things to every denomination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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