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They can call it a coin without it being a coin.  Just like Ford can call a car a Mustang without it being a horse.  It's just the name they used because it had to have a name (although everyone I knew of called them Slurpee Discs).  I doubt anybody ever actually tried to buy something with one.

Also, I'm sorry, but Merriam Webster allows for a more generous definition: "something resembling a coin especially in shape," which is what these are. So they are labelled as "coins," they can be called "coins" by definition. They are, in fact, coins. And I wish I had kept some from the day. Don't know what I did with the ones I got. 

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Why don't you look it up in your Funk & Wagnall's?

Because, even though my family got the entire set of Funk and Wagnall's one volume at a time by shopping regularly at Jewel Food Stores in the 1970s, 1) we gave our set away years ago; and 2) those are encyclopedias, which would not definitively define "coin," but might give a richer history thereof. For what it's worth, I looked up the Merriam Webster's definition on-line, not in a book.

So there. 

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Hahaha!

I was hoping you would get the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In reference, but whether you did or didn't, I liked your reply!

Which dictionary are you looking at?

According to Merriam-Webster, this use of the term coin is perfectly acceptable, see definition 2c.

I wish that the English language were so precise that words had to have one and only one meaning, but that will never be the case.

-Tom

Switzr- I am sad that I didn’t catch the Laugh-In reference, especially with the recent passing of Arte Johnson. 

Lea-Thanks for providing the link I was too lazy to copy and paste. 

Verrry Interesting. 

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