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Unpacked's avatar

I loved this article!!! I never really thought about the coin toss - from the coin's point of view. Thanks for sharing.... and I pick tails!

Jeff Ash's avatar

Another coin flip movie is "No Country for Old Men," in which the hit man -- Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh -- decides life or death with a coin flip.

Francis Boscoe's avatar

Innumismaticy - the inability to identify the subject or denomination of a coin, such as Dwight Eisenhower (coining a new term)

Paul Lukas's avatar

Ah, like illiteracy and innumeracy -- nicely done!

Munch Suchland's avatar

I can't recall it well enough to share but maybe someone here will remember -

Being a kid in the 80's meant magazines and junk mail showing up daily. About once a year, something would show up at the house (again, not sure if it was junk mail or what) that had a gold coin that was about 2" wide. As a kid, it was used as "money" when playing around the house. As we got older and became teens, most of the play money went away, but we always kept these junk coins for coin flips.

As always, a memory I wouldn't have remembered if it weren't for these random conversations on IC! (I just wish I could remember what the coin was from so I could "see" it again online)

Munch Suchland's avatar

Google wasn't helping, it kept giving me coin collector magazine results but I decided to use Ai and it immediately found it. It was Readers Digest! ANd as soon as I saw it I remembreed why we used it for coin flips in our teens - It was a double-sided coin! I'm guessing I always called tails.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/377223038968?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item&srsltid=AfmBOoqHJ5fywHN4Kg0YlTdARbZH40LN4h9m61yNyE5xDo9lxUD2tXdOiTE

Paul Lukas's avatar

Now that you've found it, are you going to buy it from that eBay seller, for nostalgia's sake?

Unpacked's avatar

Yep, I think he bought it... or maybe you did???? ; ) It's sold.

Munch Suchland's avatar

Now that I found it I think I might know where the original is. But just in case I'm mistaken, I'm buying this one up to make sure. I'll start flipping the coin for household chores. My wife and grown children probably won't appreciate it the same as I did.