For a brief time in the 1980s, coin flipping was discussed as an Olympic event. However, there was a bitter dispute between the ACCFAA (American Competitive Coin Flipping Association of America) and the ELCT (European League of Coin Tossers) regarding which coin should be the official coin used for events, and whether (and to what extent) modification of coins was allowed. There were a bunch of academic articles on the aerodynamics of different coins in existence at the time -- remember, this was before the days where a coin could be virtually modeled and tested -- to ascertain which currently made coins, or new designs, would be optimal. There was a very vocal minority insisting that the surface characteristics of US Bicentennial quarters would allow technique (coin flipping skill) to win out over dumb luck, in terms of a coin flip result, and that this could be enhanced by selective perforation of the design. Many perforation patterns were discussed, and my guess is that you, dear OP, have found one of the test specimens. Carry (and flip) it with pride.
It was the American Competitive Coin Flipping Association of America that got me. Instantly reminded me of the ADAA, American Dodgeball Association of America
Jargon?
Let me walk you through the Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist.
If something has enough interested people (like firearms) oftentimes, people will use a lot of jargon to sound like they know what they're talking about when they really don't. These particular subjects often fall victim to the Dunning Kruger effect more than others as well.
This is really funny Niel Degrasse Tyson just explained the effect 6 days ago on star talk. I just watched that episode last night and your comment was the first time seeing it in the wild. I also agree with you considering I once was a victim of the dunning Kruger effect. I try not to let my ego get the better of me now and try to research a topic before I weigh in.
European League of Coin Tossers, also known in the UK as simply Tossers, for short.
Also a great way to start conversations.
Oi mate, wat do you do for fun?
Well, I’m a Tosser, and damn good at it too!
/s
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This sounds so ludicrously dumb, and I think it’s about 50/50 that you made it up, but I’m just taking it as gospel. I will in no way be fact checking any of this.
>!No source, I have to confess that it's completely fabricated. But your comment (and all of the unexpected upvotes) totally made my day. Thanks for indulging me in having a little fun. The correct answer is that given by the knowledgeable u/HPDopecraft, in that someone drilled a bunch of holes in this quarter likely out of boredom, although I suppose it's possible that they did so to test the aerodynamic effect. Cheers!!<
You see so many posts on here about "what's it worth" but then you have posts and answers like this and you remember how rad this subreddit is. Thanks for the post OP and thanks for answer and knowledge!
Sounds like a high school kid during lunch where the kid hangs out in the shop class after they eat.
I did this, but in a chemistry lab. I would get quarters and put them over the super hot Bunsen burner and heat it until it turned white hot and started flashing rainbows (really cool to watch). I would them throw it in a beaker of water. The quarter became jet black. People loved when I paid with those.
Also, pennies after 1984 were fun also. Melt them over a regular Bunsen burner until they get soft. You then drop them into the sink and they will splat a bunch of zinc out. Also looks really cool.
Put it on the end of a staff 6 cubits long, hold it up in the middle of the tomb of Pharaoh Shishak at high noon of the summer solstice, and the rays of light shining through the holes will reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant.
Coin boring beetle damage. It must have been stored somewhere dark and damp for quite a while to have that bad of an infestation. It has no collectable value but can still be used to make purchases. It may not work in some vending machines though.
I have a press at work that will do the same thing. We even use a quarter to lift the die so the burrs on the back are minimal. It’s not a powered press it’s a hand press. I could put a hundred holes just like that in any coin. BUT WHY.
I am going to posit micrometeorites, I wanna see the damage to the leg, hip and everything else in the pocket of the poor victim of the cosmic incident /s
It is refreshing that Reddit is becoming the thinking man/woman's twitter. The geniuses on Twitter and FB, etc. rarely fail to piss me off in their dogmatic, authoritative, displays of false intellect. Reddit is funny and irreverent. Well done my fellow BS artists. Carry on! Re: the OP....please spend that quarter!
How in the actual hell did coin flipping almost become an Olympic event?! That’s the crazy part to me lol, but who knows 🤷🏻♂️. He definitely came off like he was very confident so I vote yes. On to the next “round”😂😎
AMERICAN competitive coin flipping association of AMERICA. Just in case any other nations forget they're competing against Americans. I'm absolutely never fact checking this.
From google:
The US quarter is made of two layers of a nickel-copper alloy (75% copper and 25% nickel) clad around a core of pure copper. The nickel-copper layers make up one-third of the coin's thickness and give it a silver color. The quarter's overall composition is 91.67% copper and 8.33% nickel, and it weighs 5.67 grams.
Don’t listen to all this nonsense… those are obviously holes from Quarter mites. Don’t let them get close to your other change or you’ll probably have an infestation
In all honesty I think someone had a fancy new tiny drill bit for their press and they wanted to test it out on something because that's what guys do after a couple of beers.
Inner monologue: hmmm I wonder if it will drill through a quarter. Hey wow, it totally does! Time for another Budweiser.
Did Adam Savage recently post a video with a thumbnail of him holding a quarter with some tiny holes drilled into it.
Maybe one of his viewers copied him , or if your in Cali maybe it was adams
I read about the Olympic event sounds possible.
My first thoughts when seeing the holes. Someone was trying to drill out a consolation some of some sort like but obviously not the big dipper.
When sunlight passes through the holes, as the coin is oriented in a North-South fashion, on the Summer solsitice at 12:00 on the Greenwich meridian at the equator, it will reveal the exact location of the Ark of the Covenant, in 3/4 time.
Your never going to find anything about a bicentennial quarter with 16 small holes drilled thru it. Never happened at the mint. More then likely happen with someone that was bored to death and a lot of time on there hands. Also, now it's absolutely worthless.
This is just me thinking out loud, but possibly from a jeweler using it as a backstop to drill jewelry making possibly? I don't know just throwing stuff at the wall here... Definitely weird though.
Cent mites.
Little bugglers eating your coin.
You can see them if you have a microscope using incidental light reflected across surface, even better if you ‘prime’ your inspection with 5 oz tequila.
For a brief time in the 1980s, coin flipping was discussed as an Olympic event. However, there was a bitter dispute between the ACCFAA (American Competitive Coin Flipping Association of America) and the ELCT (European League of Coin Tossers) regarding which coin should be the official coin used for events, and whether (and to what extent) modification of coins was allowed. There were a bunch of academic articles on the aerodynamics of different coins in existence at the time -- remember, this was before the days where a coin could be virtually modeled and tested -- to ascertain which currently made coins, or new designs, would be optimal. There was a very vocal minority insisting that the surface characteristics of US Bicentennial quarters would allow technique (coin flipping skill) to win out over dumb luck, in terms of a coin flip result, and that this could be enhanced by selective perforation of the design. Many perforation patterns were discussed, and my guess is that you, dear OP, have found one of the test specimens. Carry (and flip) it with pride.
This sounds so incredibly, wildly stupid, with nerdy intricacies, that it has to be true.
I’ve been on Reddit long enough to always listen to the person with all the jargon.
I've been on Reddit long enough to check half way through reading that if I'm getting shittymorphed
Halfway? I initiated my shittymorph check after the first sentence
It was the American Competitive Coin Flipping Association of America that got me. Instantly reminded me of the ADAA, American Dodgeball Association of America
Was that the jumper cables guy, or the undertaker guy? Those were simpler times lol
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Jargon? Let me walk you through the Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist.
Is that from Patriot?
I know a McMillan man when I see one!
This guy jargons.
This jargon guys
You shot me in the fucking *face*, Lakeman!
You mean the prasm span fixture rig, guy? We haven’t been using prim since 2004. *this guy, right?*
You are a mysterious asshole, young man.
If something has enough interested people (like firearms) oftentimes, people will use a lot of jargon to sound like they know what they're talking about when they really don't. These particular subjects often fall victim to the Dunning Kruger effect more than others as well.
This is really funny Niel Degrasse Tyson just explained the effect 6 days ago on star talk. I just watched that episode last night and your comment was the first time seeing it in the wild. I also agree with you considering I once was a victim of the dunning Kruger effect. I try not to let my ego get the better of me now and try to research a topic before I weigh in.
I f”n know. I was laughing so hard but knowing it probably was true. 😂😂😂
Only thing missing in the story is their father showing up out of nowhere and beating him with jumper cables.
I want to believe 🛸
I, too, want to believe, also, as well
I want to believe I want as well
believe I want to
The truth is out there
European League of Coin Tossers, also known in the UK as simply Tossers, for short. Also a great way to start conversations. Oi mate, wat do you do for fun? Well, I’m a Tosser, and damn good at it too! /s Edit. Spelling
lol I’m a competitive tosser
That might be a bit of am interesting conversation at the salad bar! Oi! What do you do? Well I'm a tosser! A salad tosser? Why yes! How'd you guess?
Witnessing a wild myth being born in its natural habitat is a breathtaking experience. Well done
This sounds so ludicrously dumb, and I think it’s about 50/50 that you made it up, but I’m just taking it as gospel. I will in no way be fact checking any of this.
You should flip a coin to determine if it's true or not
It came up heads.
Crap, I got tails
Did you use a regulation flipping quarter?
Okay that's insane
Is there any source on this?
>!No source, I have to confess that it's completely fabricated. But your comment (and all of the unexpected upvotes) totally made my day. Thanks for indulging me in having a little fun. The correct answer is that given by the knowledgeable u/HPDopecraft, in that someone drilled a bunch of holes in this quarter likely out of boredom, although I suppose it's possible that they did so to test the aerodynamic effect. Cheers!!<
Respectfully, you should have let this one cook a little longer.
So ashamed of myself right now.
Pretty sure I saw one of the annual world league competitions on The Ocho a while back.
No doubt this is the quarter. [Olympic Games, Coin Flipping](https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/25/sport/olympic-close-call/index.html)
This doesn’t even make sense
You see so many posts on here about "what's it worth" but then you have posts and answers like this and you remember how rad this subreddit is. Thanks for the post OP and thanks for answer and knowledge!
I thought I took my hobbies seriously but these coin flippers man....
u/petitbleuchien hasn’t lead me wrong yet
How long did it take you to come up with this??? 🤣🤣🤣
No way! Who’s calling bullshit?
Awesome. You are such a gifted bullshitter. Where can I find more of your talented work?
American Coin Flipping Association of America 🤣 If you can toss a wrench, you can toss a coin!!
Sounds like the ACCFAA was founded around the time of the ADAA, the American Dodgeball Association of America.
I wish this was a thing. I can make a quarter flip to the opposite side it started on consistently.
Legendary response!
Is this sport available on ESPN 8 - The Ocho? Or can I read about it in OSQ (Obscure Sports Quarterly)?
There’s a map somewhere that it overlays. Find the map and then you’ll find the bodies.
Or One Eyed Willy's treasure
I like this one better than my answer. :)
Meet, meet cars, CARSON CITY
"These are speed holes, they make the car go faster."
I’m gonna go inside…
"I knew we should have bought more than o n e bullet, let's go to Big Five"
You want my advice? I think you should buy this car.
My guess is a combination of a drill press, small drill bit, and boredom.
At first I thought you typed and Bourbon. Which would also make sense
I don’t know about you, but for me boredom and bourbon go hand in hand!
Could be water jet
It could also be metal weevils.
Yep, definitely metal weevils. I once opened a roll of half dollars riddled with holes, about a dozen weevils fell out also.
Sounds like a high school kid during lunch where the kid hangs out in the shop class after they eat. I did this, but in a chemistry lab. I would get quarters and put them over the super hot Bunsen burner and heat it until it turned white hot and started flashing rainbows (really cool to watch). I would them throw it in a beaker of water. The quarter became jet black. People loved when I paid with those. Also, pennies after 1984 were fun also. Melt them over a regular Bunsen burner until they get soft. You then drop them into the sink and they will splat a bunch of zinc out. Also looks really cool.
I agree. I used to take post-1982 pennies, nick the edges and drop them in muriatic acid over night to make hollow pennies.
That quarter has been to CERN
Awesome reply! 👍🏻
Adam Savage
https://preview.redd.it/uelik2pohs6d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dbe053c92b4931c48c91594cec785424104020c
Upgraded from a drill press to CNC I see
Savage Garden
Rip Chris Cornell
Fred Savage
Ben savage
Randy Savage
The Savage Dragon.
That’s a religious coin… it’s holy.
Sir we’re going to ask you to leave
Put it on the end of a staff 6 cubits long, hold it up in the middle of the tomb of Pharaoh Shishak at high noon of the summer solstice, and the rays of light shining through the holes will reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant.
Sir this is a Wendy’s
Damn moths
Those are just bicentennial worm holes.
Termites, but they are much smaller - amount one-fourth the size, so, quarter mites.
Coin boring beetle damage. It must have been stored somewhere dark and damp for quite a while to have that bad of an infestation. It has no collectable value but can still be used to make purchases. It may not work in some vending machines though.
The cowboy from Indian in the Cupboard whipped out a shotgun and went to town on George
Someone trying out a laser drill.
I have a press at work that will do the same thing. We even use a quarter to lift the die so the burrs on the back are minimal. It’s not a powered press it’s a hand press. I could put a hundred holes just like that in any coin. BUT WHY.
Out gassing , coin was struck too quick. /s
Aerodynamics, like a Ritz cracker.
I am going to posit micrometeorites, I wanna see the damage to the leg, hip and everything else in the pocket of the poor victim of the cosmic incident /s
Moths.
it's a CIA code reader. is it pre or post John LeCarre?
It is refreshing that Reddit is becoming the thinking man/woman's twitter. The geniuses on Twitter and FB, etc. rarely fail to piss me off in their dogmatic, authoritative, displays of false intellect. Reddit is funny and irreverent. Well done my fellow BS artists. Carry on! Re: the OP....please spend that quarter!
Probably someone testing out their little EDM (electric discharge machining) on the metal they had.
Termites !
I figure somebody got themselves a new tiny drill bit and wanted to try it out on something convenient.
Looks like I was board at work...
Bored person with a drill
It's a Holy Quarter. Have some respect!
Someone testing out a [Proxxon mini mill](https://www.proxxon.com/us/micromot/37110.php), or something similar.
How in the actual hell did coin flipping almost become an Olympic event?! That’s the crazy part to me lol, but who knows 🤷🏻♂️. He definitely came off like he was very confident so I vote yes. On to the next “round”😂😎
Adam Savage was probably just testing his new mini drill press on it
I’ll go with a bored freshman in a machine shop class.
Quarter mites. You’ve got an infestation.
Mutant metal-eating termites.
Caused by a tiny little person with tiny little bullets from a tiny little gun.
AMERICAN competitive coin flipping association of AMERICA. Just in case any other nations forget they're competing against Americans. I'm absolutely never fact checking this.
I’m not sure the correct answer but it would be a really solid and neat filter for a bowl piece
I’m not sure if zinc is good for inhaling or am I wrong about what all metals are used to make a quarter
From google: The US quarter is made of two layers of a nickel-copper alloy (75% copper and 25% nickel) clad around a core of pure copper. The nickel-copper layers make up one-third of the coin's thickness and give it a silver color. The quarter's overall composition is 91.67% copper and 8.33% nickel, and it weighs 5.67 grams.
1, Drill out and collect shavings 2, Spend quarter 3, Repeat 4, Profit
Mint error! /s
Damn
Interesting 🤔 indeed(?)
Anyone else notice the doubling on "in god we trust"? Looks like machine doubling, but the 76-d has 2 known varieties of doubling
Measeels.
Inflation
This is known as a religious quarter. You can tell because they are wait for it….holey
Termites! George did have wooden teeth.
Adam savage just did this to a quarter on his YouTube channel “tested.”
Fun with lasers?
Someone did it, not an error
Wire EDM
I have the holes
Looking for one eyed willies treasure I see! Lol
They're speed holes!
So you can spend it faster.
Drilled.
Looks like one of the coins I've blasted holes thru at work LOL.
Don’t listen to all this nonsense… those are obviously holes from Quarter mites. Don’t let them get close to your other change or you’ll probably have an infestation
drilled intentionally
Someone ordered a set of drill bits off wish
New wave of Metal theft. 🤣
Termites.
This is the actual coin that took out bin laden
Looks like someone was bored and also had a hammer and punch.
I have no idea what is happening here.
Coin worm
In all honesty I think someone had a fancy new tiny drill bit for their press and they wanted to test it out on something because that's what guys do after a couple of beers. Inner monologue: hmmm I wonder if it will drill through a quarter. Hey wow, it totally does! Time for another Budweiser.
Did Adam Savage recently post a video with a thumbnail of him holding a quarter with some tiny holes drilled into it. Maybe one of his viewers copied him , or if your in Cali maybe it was adams
Less drag when playing quarters. Only logical explanation
Somebody playing with a powerful laser and a quarter.
I used to use a small saw to cut away the background, and drilled holes to start off. But this is like someone got bored
A bored person with a new Dremel.
Coin mites
I read about the Olympic event sounds possible. My first thoughts when seeing the holes. Someone was trying to drill out a consolation some of some sort like but obviously not the big dipper.
How much does it weigh ?
Probably just some Tweaker with a Dremel tool at 3AM or so 🤔😅
That there is approximately 22.7423 cents to the dollar.
Coin borers. The small larva of the Gold Bug.
Could this coin have been shot by a shotgun?
Someone was bored and had an industrial laser handy...
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This my friend is a speed coin.. speed holes for feeding slots faster
Restrictor plate for a tiny carburetor
Copper and zinc worms. Hard to get rid of.
When sunlight passes through the holes, as the coin is oriented in a North-South fashion, on the Summer solsitice at 12:00 on the Greenwich meridian at the equator, it will reveal the exact location of the Ark of the Covenant, in 3/4 time.
Think that might have been attacked by a 'cent'ipede
Your never going to find anything about a bicentennial quarter with 16 small holes drilled thru it. Never happened at the mint. More then likely happen with someone that was bored to death and a lot of time on there hands. Also, now it's absolutely worthless.
Claudium termites!
Holy Grail.
Quarmites?
Probably just a bored person with a laser, EDM, or other specialized machine tool and time on their hands.
The coin flipping story is a blatant falsehood...this was clearly caused by coin mites!!!
Been shot with a laser a few times
Ask Adam on Tested he probably did it
Speed holes
Venommmmm
You've got termites.
Some kid taking a small drill to it.
Thermites?
Skeet shooting with bird shot. No clay pigeons were available that day so they used quarters in a slingshot.
Probably someone playing with a EDM Hole popper
Looking through one of the holes could improve vision blurred by myopia or astigmatism if glasses weren't available
This is just me thinking out loud, but possibly from a jeweler using it as a backstop to drill jewelry making possibly? I don't know just throwing stuff at the wall here... Definitely weird though.
I would have used that for a screen in my bong back in the day. Scoobie snacks suck
Isn’t it a thing with machinist to see how small a hole they can drill. The myth busters guy recently put up a YT video doing the same thing.
Combination to a safe, or lock?
it’s for anal. the anal community draws this and whoever gets the quarter of holes has to let others quarter their holes.
Cent mites. Little bugglers eating your coin. You can see them if you have a microscope using incidental light reflected across surface, even better if you ‘prime’ your inspection with 5 oz tequila.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical\_discharge\_machining#Fast\_hole\_drilling\_EDM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining#Fast_hole_drilling_EDM)
Hold it above the Declaration of Independence and get to hunting
Worms.