I have a few tokens and coins in my collection from fantasy and sci-fi genre; think Battle Star Galactic cubits… for RPG, LARPers and the like, you can take a look at Realm Coins up on KickStarter, although not as detailed as Campaign Coins it should be a nice, affordable alternative for people to use in general for all sorts of RPG games and board games.
These sort of small, niche manufacturing runs aren’t cheap and the companies that do this sort of thing (still here in the United States) with the quality one would expect are hit or miss. The closest one I found that showed promise is Wendells, Inc. out of Minneapolis: http://www.wendellsinc.com/minting/process.html
Gamer Bling has a fantastic writeup on Campaign Coins:
Gamer Bling is a numismatist. And by that he doesn’t mean that he’ a Gary Numan fan, although he is; he means that he is a coin collector, and he geeks out over coins the way other people geek out over whatever it is that they geek out about, many examples of which, like PVC statues of underclad Japanese anime girls, are things that are generally not admitted in public.
Gamer Bling collects coins. And he is geekily proud of his collection inasmuch as it has coinage from a variety of legal entities that no longer exist, like Yugoslavia, the free city of Danzig, France when they were a military powerhouse, and whatever company it was that thought the d20 Book of Erotic Fantasy was a good idea (Gamer Bling didn’t really see a need to read a guide that defined gnomes by the fact that they liked to have sex in groups, and probably using PVC anime statues as props, too).
NPR’s Planet Money reporters recently investigated the $1 presidential coin program, which was a Congressional effort to get more $1 coins into circulation while also trying to be educational. The problem is that nobody really wants them. Well, not nobody. Sixty percent of the coins make it into circulation. But that other 40 percent?
This is still a trending hack option from 2009… loopholes, gotta’ wonder.
At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off.
Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold in boxes of 250 coins, to a credit card that offers frequent-flier mile awards, then took the shipments straight to the bank. They then used the coins they deposited to pay their credit-card bills. Their only cost: the car trip to make the deposit. [more]
btw, Right now, pennies 1981 and older are worth 5 cents!start hoarding…
The Royal Dutch Mint has unveiled the design for a limited-edition set of QR-coded coins to be released on June 22. By honoring the 100th anniversary of the distinctive Mint building in Utrecht and featuring the first QR code on currency, the coins combine both tradition and technological innovation. The face of each silver 5€ and gold 10€ depicts a portrait of the Dutch head of State, Queen Beatrix with elements of the building’s architecture. The reverse side of the coin displays a QR code which scans the URL (http://www.q5g.nl) ‘Nieuwe Nederlandse Herdenkingsmunt 2011‘, a commemorative coin website.
a friend of mine sent us pictures of his son’s x-ray…
that’s a quarter in his throat… crazy.
I’ve heard of jelly beans up the nose, pennies and nickels but wow – a quarter.
you know, there’s a joke/commentary in here about high inflation and the economy… with swallowing a quarter instead of a penny, but I digress.
Please remind your children that only little piggy banks eat money…
Make your Franklin is a community art project.
Make your Franklin is international, bearer of a cultural reflexion.
With this mind, Make your Franklin suggest each of you to re-create a symbol of modern society : the 100$ banknote.
The bare-bones Make Your Franklin website is based in Paris. It launched March 20 and invites anyone to download a monstrous JPG of the $100 bill and “rebuild the banknote.” Since that time, the project organizers have received almost 300 submissions, but filtered some due to blatant offensiveness and repetition of ideas — many replaced Benjamin Franklin’s mug with The Joker. Accepted designs are aggregated in a Make Your Franklin gallery for all to see.
Is there any sort of technique which can be used to sort cards quickly?
YES!
1) Make 10 index cards numbered 0-9. If possible, use white index cards and write the numbers using a black, bold permanent maker (like a sharpie). The contrast will make it easier on your eyes. Set the cards on the table in increasing order.
e.g.:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
OR
0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9
2) Take the cards you want to sort. Sort them by the last number on the index card (the ones place). Cards with #5 in the ones place would be put next to the #5 index card.
3) When done, pile each stack on the next higher stack. Pick up the #1 stack, place it on top of the #2 stack. Then place that stack on top of the #3 stack, then everything on top of the #4 stack, etc.
4) Starting at the top of the stack (previously the #1 stack), resort the cards using the next to last number (tens digit). Card #432 would go on the #3 stack. Cards with no second number (say 1) would go on the 0 pile)
5) After sorting all the cards by the tens digit, restack the cards on the next lower stack. Pick up #9 and place it on #8, then place that on #7, etc.
6) Resort the whole stack from the top (previously the #9 stack) by using the first number (the hundreds digit). Card #921 would go on stack #9. Cards with no number in the first digit (such as #98) would go in the 0 pile.
7) Restack the cards on the next higher stack (step #3) and your done.
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