Collect Coins From the Future!

It's only a matter of time before someone puts coins into a time machine.  How will you know if your coins are real coins or fakes?  This instructable contains helpful tips on collecting coins from the future.

Step 1: Measure Radioactivity

Step 2: Analyze Crystal Structure

Step 3: Analyze Elements

Step 4: Examine Texture

Step 5: Check for New Manufacturing Techniques

Step 1 Measure Radioactivity

Coins from the future may have been exposed to high levels of radioactivity, either from nuclear fallout, proliferation of nuclear breeder waste, or from the time travel itself.  Either way, it is important to measure the radioactivity in order to know how to properly store the coins.

A Gieger Counter is a relatively inexpensive way to measure radioactivity.  Any coin with higher radioactivity than the background level may be a coin from the future. [The logic is undebatable: since radioactivity decays over time, an older coin would have less radioactivity than a newer one.]

Comments

[rix_101]

Yus! Canadian pride!

[drawe21]

Good thing he uses a technique from the future where all things are possible

[ShadowJesus]

Thanks to this, I can check if the change i was given a few days ago, was actually from the future! Thanks!

[Bongmaster]

if this is for april fools your 4 days late O_o...

[kelseymh]

Nah, he's right on time.  The I'ble was projected three days into the future via a wormhole.

[Bongmaster]

cursed wormhole XD

[lemonie]

X-ray crystallography requires a single crystal, unless you're using the powder technique. Either way it's no good for coins.

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