Notlogical will like this...anyone seen a hollow spy coin??
Goldbully
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From GIZMODO..........................
Back in the good old days of the Cold War, spies didn't have encrypted cellphones or digital thingamajigs to do their thing, so they did their spy business with classic spy stuff like spy camera-pens, spy shoe transmitters, spy bacon strips, and messages encoded on their spy underpants. Or these Hollow Spy Coins, which were used by the CIA and the KGB to hide poison or microfilms. Now you can buy them to store whatever is small enough to fit in them, like discarded nail bits. The coins are still in use by modern spies, however: Last year, the US Department of Defense cautioned its American contractors about hollow Canadian coins containing radio transmitters.
The Canadian coins were found by US defense contractors working on secret projects on three occasions between October 2005 and January 2006. Apparently, these were used to track movements of people carrying them. According to the experts, the coin transmitters could have been planted by China, Russia, or even France, not the Canadians, who actually said they didn't have a clue these existed.
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Back in the good old days of the Cold War, spies didn't have encrypted cellphones or digital thingamajigs to do their thing, so they did their spy business with classic spy stuff like spy camera-pens, spy shoe transmitters, spy bacon strips, and messages encoded on their spy underpants. Or these Hollow Spy Coins, which were used by the CIA and the KGB to hide poison or microfilms. Now you can buy them to store whatever is small enough to fit in them, like discarded nail bits. The coins are still in use by modern spies, however: Last year, the US Department of Defense cautioned its American contractors about hollow Canadian coins containing radio transmitters.
The Canadian coins were found by US defense contractors working on secret projects on three occasions between October 2005 and January 2006. Apparently, these were used to track movements of people carrying them. According to the experts, the coin transmitters could have been planted by China, Russia, or even France, not the Canadians, who actually said they didn't have a clue these existed.
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-Paul
<< <i>I have seen one at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. They had one on display during a tour I took a few years ago.
-Paul >>
You can buy them Here!!!.
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<< <i>I have seen one at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. They had one on display during a tour I took a few years ago.
-Paul >>
You can buy them Here!!!. >>
Dude, cool link! Thanks!
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
<< <i>Very cool!! I want one >>
I could make them in the shop but looking at what they're charging for them it's not worth the time for the setup. looks like they are CNCing them in production. --Jerry