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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1421525, member: 5739&quot;]<b>Aussie 20cents - AK47 bullet hole</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is that coin I was talking about.... I held and put a live, unfired 7.62 x 39 mm, Kalashnikov (AK-47) bullet next to it to show size et cetera..... now I have an old Belgian 5 franc and a couple Italian 200 Lire as well as a Japanese 10 sen coin, all of which I put a hole through with a smaller caliber .223 round fired from a short barreled Ruger Mini-14... much less force exerted on the coin it seems, but the .223 bullet, which travels much faster than the 7.62x39mm round used by the AK 47, around 3100 feet per second out of the muzzzle for the .223, which is very fast, even for such weapons and rounds..... so anyhow the .223 seems to just punch a clean hole right through, where the larger AK47 bullet seems to kinda torque the coin with the powerful impact and larger mass of bullet passing through.... both still seem to leave a fairly clean hole, especially if you hit the coin in the middle. Alot of people confuse caliber and mm... when it comes to caliber, one &#039;caliber&#039; is 1/100 of an inch, so the .223 caliber round is barely over .22cal ( or 22/100 of an inch), the 7.62x39mm round of the AK47 is 30 caliber, so a decent ammount larger(slightly under 10% Larger) Note: I did them all with FMJ, Full Metal Jacketed, rounds. The coin in the pics was hit on the reverse at 10 meters, open sights, couldn&#039;t bear to fire upon the queen.... Platypus though, no problemo <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> just kidding, I love animals. Especially strange Australian ones that I do not fully understand.</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>as for NEWEST aquisitions, I got several from Nicaragua, several bronzes and a few copper nickel coins from between 1938&nbsp; and 1950. Here is a 1943 25c, I love the sunrise over the mountains on Nicaraguan coinage. I also like the pyramid that is on some of the other denominations.... great coins to collect. This one is the largest in size of my new Nicaraguan coins, I paid all of .20 US cents for it..... not too shabby <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>~~~</p><p>~</p><p><br /></p><p>(really hope I havent already posted any of these pics.....)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>~~~~~~~~</p><p>***NOTE: sorry, I mean Australian 20 cent piece, I have quite a few of these.... I guess I didnt take any pics of the HK$10Dollar coin I shot.... also no offense to folks from any of these countries, also I only shot obsolete coinage of which I had many examples and had high mintages.</p><p>***</p><p>~~~</p><p>~[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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