Is it possible to take out the centre of a euro coin ?

iMax

Just the centre piece so that you'd be left with a ring & smaller piece ?

Daemos

Yes, but with great difficulty. Saw it in a paper a while after they came out, and a guy in our school did it after throwing it at a wall

Iwasfrozen

Daemos wrote: »

Yes, but with great difficulty. Saw it in a paper a while after they came out, and a guy in our school did it after throwing it at a wall

No, i think i read somewhere that they fixed that.

Dotrel

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14958011,00.html

Herrick

Yes. Put it in a vice and the center will eventually fall out unscathed. The outer, golden part of the coin will be misshapen though.

AnamGlas

Possible, but I think there's some law against defacing the currency...

Thatnastyboy

iMax wrote: »

Just the centre piece so that you'd be left with a ring & smaller piece ?

Tee hee

Bobby Baccala

i saw my da takin the center out of a 2 euro coin but not a one euro

bitemybanger

It is indeed illegal but it's only euros..... The reason were all in this big mess, right?

laoch na mona

you could drill it out

ejmaztec

bitemybanger wrote: »

It is indeed illegal but it's only euros..... The reason were all in this big mess, right?

Yes, the bankers got bored and drilled through 300 billion of them before they got it right.:(

Fingleton had a necklace made out of the final one.

Saila

challenge accepted

LighterGuy

Dotrel wrote: »

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14958011,00.html

Smart idea.
I wonder if they got too greedy. Hence why they got caught.

Captain Chaos

Freeze it and then bang it in a mircowave. The two metals will expand/contract at different temperatures and should fall apart from each other.





Most likely will no work.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Put the coin on a piece of flat wood and get something roughly the same diameter as the centre of the coin and hammer it into the centre, it will pop out.

I done it years ago when i took two centres out and shaved the euro side down on one coin and the other side down on the other coin, glued them together and made myself a double sided coin.

bnt

Blast it with ... 6300 joules of electrical energy. (Scroll down about 1/2 way.)

Derfil

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Check this out.

johndoe99

Derfil wrote: »

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Check this out.

I'd love to hand that one into a shop . They were able to cut coinage centuries ago and user it as lesser values, hence the name 'pieces of eight'.

a mate used a blow torch on a €2 coin a few years back, not hot enough to discolour the coin, then dropped it into a cup of water. A tap with a dot punch and it came out easily enough, apparently theres a tiny ridge on the inner piece that keeps it lodged within the outer piece.

IcedOut

Ya, just drill a hole in it

x in the city

iMax wrote: »

Just the centre piece so that you'd be left with a ring & smaller piece ?

saw someone do this to a canadian coin, freeze it.

and bang the crap out of it afterwards

orourkeda

iMax wrote: »

Just the centre piece so that you'd be left with a ring & smaller piece ?

Comin' across the nation