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If you were in a competetion to throw a US coin the farthest...
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And could select any that are listed in the Redbook, which would you select and why.
Assume no slab, windless conditions and the coin would land undamaged. It has to be thrown like a rock, not flung like a frisbee.
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I am thinking Platinum Eagle as the metal is as dense as this thread proposition.
Edit. I'm reconsidering as I didn't originally see the "no Frisbee effect" rule.
I suppose the heaviest.
Pan Pac Expo $50 gold or one of the territorial gold slugs. A little more than 2.5 ounces of gold.
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1804 Dollar, just to see everyone running for it.
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Answer: Platinum Eagle due to it having the highest melting point.
I would throw it {like a rock in space (windless), no slab} per your requirements, at the perfect point where it would be just inside the gravitational pull of the sun, but not into the sun, so it would then orbit like a comet, passing by the earth every few hundred years, whilst missing all planetary junk, racking up kazillions of flyer miles, and since it is the highest melting point, survive passage around the sun, at a distance outside the melting point.
This would give the farthest fastest trip. Conversely, at a most leisurely pace, same conditions, but headed away from the sun, bypassing all planetary stuff, catching the solar wind, and be expelled from our solar system, and head off into deep space, unless it got caught in an intergalactic Coin Star machine.
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I'd give this a shot for kicks... Anyone go one I can borrow?
Oops. I missed that too. Did we pick the same coin?
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5 ounce silver puck as it will likely roll a good amount on its edge to set a new world record.
I was gunna do that one but I have been kinda busy today
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I bet I could throw a Eunice Shriver commem quite a ways.
George had to settle for a dollar. I wonder what his
choice would be now.
I would say an ASE....just because it would be the modern version of GW's story....Thinking about it, it would be a fun experiment to conduct.....maybe on the Bonneville salt flats.....Cheers, RickO
OK, I went back and reread the rules and although pushing the envelope, believe this complied since the way I throw a rock to make it go further is to skip it off the surface tension of water. Accordingly a nicely flattened fifty cent piece should make an ideal candidate. Do they have any of those tourist coin flattening machines that take something larger than a penny? If not a train and a railroad track would do the trick.
5 oz. puck for sure. It's about the same weight as a baseball, plus it would have more energy when it hits the ground to bounce/roll further.
That's my choice but I would take the round type so it would be able to roll.
Cool as I want the points should coinstartled be at the end of the field with a tape measure
Absolutely....
Not in competition for distance, but I threw a half-dozen
Off-Center US Cents off the Great Wall in China, in 1983.
(and given wind conditions that day, they kept on coming
back onto the Wall area we were in - I had to 'spike' them
down for them to fall all the way down to the ground.)
I would throw a silver three cent piece.....while standing on the top edge of the Grand Canyon. That should be good for at least a 3/4 mile distance (down) and maybe more.
Now this is an interesting experience. I like it. Thanks for sharing!
I'll be there with a catchers mitt.
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You know, a shiny silver coin against the sky might be harder to see in some conditions. You sure you wouldn't want a nice neon toned example to stick out a bit?
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@SiriusBlack .... Only if I could shoot it out of the sky - which would ruin the distance effort....
Cheers, RickO
I would just throw the redbook. With a tight spiral, it could go 60 yards.
My Avatar coin since it graded so horribly but, I have to crack it out first.
I think I could throw the Ike Dollar the furthest.
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I'd use a fractional gold dollar... the smaller the better, e.g. 25C. Cover it with some bird seed, let a bird eat it, and watch it fly away...
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Back in the day, I tried to throw a Kennedy half across the Delaware River in Milford, PA. It landed about 20-30 yards short, but I think I could have done it with an IKE.
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Whatever coin I decided on, I would for sure make it a "spit" coin, ala a spitball.
Hey, if you're going to throw a coin across the Delaware River, at least pick something with Washington on it.
I would choose a 3-cent silver, and the wind would blow it backwards over my head. Then I'd pick it up and go home while the rest of you try to retrieve your Pan-Pac $50 octagonals from the bottom of the river.