Spy coins?

[eagames]

No limit to what you might find looking through your change:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/10/america/NA-GEN-US-Spy-Coins.php

[Earwig]

Wow make ya wonder who was following a few meters behind them aye. But like they would tell use the coin transmitters can communicate with a satelite or something

Eric

[eagames]

Maybe it just turns on every so often and sends out the GPS so they know where to watch from sattelite.

Pretty sneaky to use a Canada coin, those are always hard to get rid of so you carry them around forever.

James Bond would drop it in the bad guys pocket so they track him instead LOL

[coop]

They would never use a Susan B. Anthony coin. It would only go to someones sock drawer and no farther. You have to explain to people that it is a dollar and that it is US currency when you try to spend them and most of the time you spend them as quarters instead of dollars... No wonder it IS so unpopular.

[Dick]

Very true, Coop, and they turn up pretty often in rolls of quarters, along with the car-wash tokens!
Dick

[smed]

www.iht.com is registered to the NY Times. Real objective rag that...

[eagames]

Yep many news are pretty bad!

But that story is on all news today:

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=sci_tech&id=4925733


Another interesting coin story, 4 million in rare coins taken at a coin convention:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070111/3070042.asp

[coppercoins]

I saw the story about spy coins. Thought it was interesting, not much more than that. It did get me wondering just how many US coins there might be like that one.

I bet they sell for a pretty penny!

[smed]

As suspected.... untrue.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070113/national/spy_coins

[Dick]

Unless there was some way to connect an antenna, even a small one, to the transmitter, inside the "case", there would be NO SIGNAL! Case closed!
Dick

[murphy]

I think I heard of a transmitter-cent that was used in the Cold War. Russia had a red ruble coin that had Stalin wearing headphones. On the other side the hammer & sickel was replaced with a dish antenna. But I could be wrong hehe.

[Dick]

Murphy, Anything is very possible, knowing their culture, but, It HAS to have an antenna of some sort, to send the (redio) signal. The metal case is the same thing as we used to test transmitters output, except in our case it was a "screen room", radio signal proof. The only other way would be to use a light beam of some sort, Laser, etc with a very small hole to send the light beam, and it would of necessity, have to be very stable, with the receiver quite close, due to the small size. Space to include, among other things, small batteries. No, I don't think trhere is much to that theory, YET. You can still sleep easy at night, along with the rest of us.
Dick

[eagames]

Sounds like they handled it like Roswell, come up with a detailed but bogus story then retract it. What a nutty deal.

You know those 3 little green men in that silver foil ship that landed in Joe's ranch in Roswell at 6:57 pm and were 4 foot tall with 6 fingers that we told ya about... Well never mind, we were mistaken.