Electrically conductive metals, such as copper and aluminum, can be altered in form without bringing so much as a chisel to their surface. The secret: electromagnetic fields.
By inducing a high-intensity pulsed magnetic field into—in this case—a quarter, a corresponding repulsive magnetic field is created, rapidly—we’re talking 1/100th of a second, here—repelling portions of the quarter into itself. What results is a fat, dime-size 25-cent piece.
What You Need
• A coin
• An electromagnetic conductor
• A heavily constructed coil of wire
Step by Step
• Place coin in close proximity to wire coil.
• Discharge electromagnetic current through conductor, by closing its circuit.
• The current creates a ultrastrong, rapidly oscillating electromagnetic field around the wire coil.
• In turn, the coil creates an ultrastrong magnetic current (tens or hundreds of thousands of amperes), which overcome the coin, causing it to alter in shape and size.
• Imagine the coin is cowering in fear of the current, squeezing into itself like a scared baby animal.
Please note: United States Code Title 18 – Crimes and Criminal Procedure, Chapter 17 – Coins and Currency states, “Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
