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TWO SIZES/ SAME TIME
We would like to think we can!
The contest is over. But here is our new Kickstarter to make the coin.
It's the FLHEX project and it features an exciting deck of cards and a new coin with an odd shape, giving it similarities to both half dollars and silver dollars.
We have just a few days...Read about it and support our Kickstarter NOW!
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Ok Gang,
I'm making a new coin that is both Silver Dollar Size and Half Dollar Size at the same time. I know, that sounds crazy. Maybe it is. Can you figure out how this is possible? That's our Contest...
Tell me how I could make a coin that is both Silver Dollar Size and Half Dollar Size at the same time. Comment Below before November 5, 2019 CST for your chance to win TWO of these new coins!!
This is all happening because I'm starting a Kickstarter for a new deck of cards for Cardistry. The Kickstarter is a side project, because we are obviously a Coin Magic company.
However, there is a coin component to this Playing Card Kickstarter. I'm making a coin that goes along with the deck! It's a way to connect the Copeland Coins Brand, and we all like coins, so why not?
As stated above, this coin will be very special. Can you guess how it is possible to share both Silver Dollar and Half Dollar sizes in the same coin?
To be fair, I'm being intentionally vague about the description. And the size is not perfectly the same to both coins, but will be with in a couple of millimeters. Pretty stinking close, I would say!
As always, I reward everyone who enters into my contest. So it doesn't hurt to take a guess at what this new coin will look like.
Have fun! You are allowed two guess... in case you want to get creative with one of them and be more serious with the other.
Okay, that's it. Comment below for your chance to win!
Rules of Contest:
1. No purchase necessary.
2. Winner will receive two (2) of these new coins.
3. If the Kickstarter is not successful, these coin will not be minted and will not exist, so another coin prize may be substituted at Copeland Coins discretion.
4. Prize will be a physical reward and is not redeemable for cash value.
5. Prize will be shipped for free.
6. Must enter before the Kickstarter goes live on November 5, 2019.
7. Maximum two entries per person.
8. If more than one correct guess is submitted, then the name of one person will be randomly drawn from all correct answers submitted.
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I’m thinking of some optical illusion thing. Like an oval coin or something which you need to hold in a specific angle for the spectator to see.
My chakra coins get mistaken for half dollar size all the time because a large rim on them. They are dollar size though.
By putting a thicker rim on the half dollar side it will be closer to the size of a dollar. The rim is a bit of an illusion. You may need to expand it a little but hopefully not much if you can cut down the dollar rim a little.
Then you have a half dollar that’s a tiny bit bigger than usual but it’s mostly the rim. The other side a dollar that’s normal size with a little less rim than usual.
It will look a bit strange but the coin is tapered. Like a chink a chink set. So on one side it has the dimensions of a dollar size and then the sides bevel so on the opposite side the coin reduces the dimension of a half dollar. I assume the purpose of this would be to be able to palm a dollar size coin as if you are palming a half dollar. This coin would be thicker then a half of a dollar alone.
I’m guessing it’s hexagonal, septagonal, octagonal, or some other type of angular edged coin. You could then measure the diameter at the vertices and it would be the same as a dollar. Or measure the diameter at the straight edge and it would be the same as a half dollar.
Optical illusion comes into play here . The coin can only be one size . So if one side looks to be bigger using a design then when flipped around or held in a different angle the coin will look to be another.
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