Other Crap

Bert's Quarter Shrinking and Can Crushing Gallery. Fascinating! The submitter described it as follows:

• "Just for fun, a company called Storeridge Engineering uses powerful electrical bursts to actually shrink coins. This involves putting the currency into a metal coil and then blasting it with more than 100,000 amps. The surge causes the coil to explode violently, leaving a coin that's been compacted at the molecular level. A Kennedy half dollar loses about half its size and gains mysteriously beautiful radial lines. There are even more hilarious results with bimetal coins and coins with a hole in the center, such as Japanese yen. The site has a great explanation and much larger pictures of all this frivolity."