August 8, 2003

Here is the 10p, moments after a good squishing.

To ensure it wasn't too easy to remove I used yet another coin and my poor fingers to ride up the paint against the coin's edge. If you look closely you can see marks where I was doing that.

August 16, 2003

On the way back from my first Landmark SELP day I discover... it's still there! Astonishing. I mean, people are hard up in this city. Turns out, those yellow line painters do a thorough job and they'd come back to patch the gap. In so doing, they'd also covered the coin.

Whipping out my keys (and the camera again – this time in broad daylight), I scratched through to reveal it:

So, where is it?

If it hasn't been prized out, it's at the corner of Guilford Street and Lansdowne Terrace in WC1N behind Great Ormond St Hospital. That URL links to a map with an arrow's whose coordinates I have manually tweaked to exactly where the coin is. If you see it, lemme know. If you produce a picture of it, I'll treat you to something worthwhile :-)