A small child has reportedly fallen victim to China-quality coinage, with the currency exploding in his hands for reasons unknown.

The exploding money was encountered by a 3-year-old boy in China’s Fujian province, when it blew up in his hands.

According to his mother, he had just learned how to pay for the small rides at local shops, and she had given him a 1 yuan coin for this purpose.


No sooner had she taken her eyes off him as he went to play on the rides than she heard a loud bang and a scream, and came running over to find the boy surrounded by smoke and the remains of the coin on the floor.
The boy escaped with minor burns to his hand.

Similar incidents involving small children, exploding currency and electric vehicles were reported in 2007 and 2008, leading some to speculate that some combination of electrical mishap and dubious coinage may have been at fault.

Well thats interesting....
my guess is either something got put into the coin to make it.. react and explode in heat, or they messed up the chemical compound.

>>1 Copper prices are rising in the US and now we have the solution. Begin making pennies out of C4.

Juan coins are generally made of silver with some proportion of aluminum mixed in. The exact proportions or what could've been introduced into the metal to cause this kind of reaction though, I have no clue.

You could say the monetary value of the yuan is...BOOMING!

>>6 LOLOLOL I see what you did there!

No, but seriously, that sucks for the poor child.

at least it was only minor burns. n the bebe doesnt seem to sad

China, what a safe country, where even those with money are at risk of exploding.
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>>9 Pffff!!!! XDDDD

i dont get it... HOW can coins explode??
is there magnesium in the coin's alloy?
can static electricity even cause the spark?
the burn marks in the kid's fingers are suspicious. the burn marks are too symmetrical, if the coin is held by the thumb and pointer finger, the "explosion" radius must leave a curved burn mark.

>>12 Unless the explosion was really and arcing current of electricity. Superficial burns like those are common among electrical wounds. Now, how the coin exploded because of an electrical current is beyond me.

Er, >>11. Cant brain today, I've caught the dumb -.-

i feel bad for the kid but exploading coins would make a GREAT practical joke! ha ha ha... i didnt know that coins were even FLAMMABLE!!! XD ha ha. it must not have been a REAL coin anyway if it exploaded. it must have been an artificialy made special bomb disguised as a coin. the kid was just curious enough to pick it up. lolz MY FRIEND JUST PICKED UP A QUARTER OFF THE STREET. lolz irony.... it didnt expload so it must be safe! :3

>>14
So if it malfunctions, it must not be real?

You're in for a rude awakening. Chemical reactions do happen, and that coin could have been the product of batch of 'Chemical Reacted' coins.

Coins are in-fact, still created, and thus meaning they could have fucked up when making it.

How do you even make an exploding coin? WHY would you even make an exploding coin?!? some people...

>>16
I just said, it's probably a Chemical Reaction. How blind are you people? It's most likely a Chemical Reaction out of a few batches of coins recently sent out.

OOOOOHHH~~~!! Magic, peoples!! Magiiic~~!!

But seriously, this is sadness :/

>>17 >>18
So you're both assuming that everyone on this thread previously thought it waqs on purpose/some kind of unknown phenomenon? It's not that hard to figure out that is was some chemical reation, and I came to that conclusion over a week ago, but that doesn't make it any less of an interesting story.

OMG WHO THE FUCK WOULD MAKE EXPLODING MONEY THEN GIVE IT TO CHILDREN?
I'm not blaming the mother for the incident, but still, how could she have gotten the coin without it exploding on her instead?:/

>>20 maybe the mom wasnt doing little kid stuff like squishing it?

>>>19

AHhahahha~ I like how you take jokes too seriously.

Of course I know that it wasn't magic. I'm saying that it IS Magic... until proven guilty (Some chemical Reaction)

Chemical reactions need activation energy or a catalyst to occur. I can't imagine a small child being broke enough to take penny pinching to the extreme either. However, regardless of the cause, this brings new meaning to "burning a hole in your pocket".

You know how baby's always put stuff in their mouth? maybe the saliva from the baby cause the reaction to occur.. but yet again wouldn't that leave marks on the mouth too? Idk but maybe >>20 does have a point, that the baby did something that the mother wouldn't of ben doing before.[

>>24

Not if it exploded after the child got away from it's mouth, with it.

Yeesh. Now I'm afraid to pick up Chinese money.

>>26 Yeah I know but don't you think chemical reactions happen quick? I'm not sure, but this exploding Chinese money really confuses me. haha

I Hope They Will Fix This Problem :(

>>28
No, they normally react slowly, because it still takes time for the Atoms to build up the power strong enough to explode.

>>30 Atoms don't charge up and explode for a chemical reaction. If they did, that wouldn't be a coin that would be a damn nuke. Atoms actually just rearrange in molecular structure based on the attraction of another molecule. The very process is either exothermic or endothermic. In other words, it either throws energy out in the form of heat or sucks it in. In this case it was exothermic.

A reaction needs activation energy or a catalyst. It was either the kid's sweat or his saliva.

>>31
Well I couldn't think of any other word other than Atom. I was tired. I knew it sounded wrong to use, but someone who knew what I was talking about was BOUND to come along and correct me.

>>32 ...But you were wrong in every sense? Not just talking about atoms, the whole concept of anything having to "charge up" like a battery didn't make sense. Chemical reactions are immediate, and slowed only by how long it takes the catalyst to propagate.