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What do you use for the coin flip

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Kref

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I have seen in the iFAB book that it advises you to get a special coin for it. And then on various refereeing sites like 'The referee store' you can buy a coin for like £7. What do you people use? Personally I just use whatever coin I have in my bad whether that be 2p, 10p, 50p, £1 or £2. However that has led to me sadly losing several pound coins on the pitch.
 
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Order of preference:
10p
2p
1p
50p
Blade of grass in hand behind back (until it was very recently outlawed!)
 
I have a couple of coins that are about the size of a US half-dollar that I use. One is the home coin of our state referee committee, and the other is a simple black and red coin.

The center for the Round of 16 boys state event I worked last month has a tradition that he gives each of his ARs working a playoff game with him a US sliver dollar, so I have that in my coin bag as well. His only request was that we just never let it hit the ground. It's a long-standing superstition for him.
 
I let coins land on the grass, so I like the Eisenhower dollar because it is big/heavy enough it won’t land on its edge.

(The Eisenhower dollar was replaced by the Susan B Anthony dollar sometime back. The new dollar coin is a much smaller coin that doesn’t have the same size advantage.)
 
2p or 10p for me. My loss rate during the game is high - doesn't seem to matter where I try and keep them. I'm too stingy to go with anything more valuable and 1p / 5p are too small
 
For 2 p, who cares if you lose it.

What I found effective to not losing coins I care about is that I use one of those wallet inserts that becomes a mini wallet. Coin goes in there and then goes in a shirt pocket. (I also use the mini wallet to have a cheat sheet on topics I typically want to talk to ARs about in the pregame.)
 
Just to throw my two pennies worth in (sorry)..

I use the A&H coin, big enough and clear enough to distinguish sides, easier than some grubby 2p coin etc. I don't even throw it in the air, just slap it straight on the back of my hand and ask 'heads or tails?'. Only ever lost one in 6 years, probably from when I stacked it getting into position from a FK, much to the amusement of, well, everyone.

Ended up buying two before they closed down, I miss A&H!
 
Anyone willing to admit after the coin toss they stride over the the AR or 4th and hand them the cherished coin for safekeeping?

so it can bounce out of the ars pockets instead of theirs?
 
Anubis said:
Anyone willing to admit after the coin toss they stride over the the AR or 4th and hand them the cherished coin for safekeeping?

so it can bounce out of the ars pockets instead of theirs?
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Have done on occasion, with a £20 fine attached for loss 🤣
 
A replica 1922 double-headed dollar, and I have a sweatband with a zip pocket in it to avoid losing it :D
 
An old penny - only one captain (Under 14) has ever commented on it!

For younger viewers they are brown and bigger than any coin used in the UK since - a bit bigger than the first 50p.
 
I have three in my kit tupperware container I use in below frequency order and technically none of hem are 'coins'.
- "black or gold" a souvenir referee 'coin' my son brought me back from Dallas Cup a few years ago
- "Field or shield" a custom made one from my previous RA. The shield is the RA emblem
- "Blue or Yellow" the FIFA fair play one

I also have a stack of other ones at home I collected in my early referee year (alongside my whistle collection).
 
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