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  • I have never heard of this being done before.
  • It is an old superstition that the friendship will be cut with the knife, but not if the knife is purchased. It is not actually that you give them a coin with the knife, but the recipient is supposed to give the giver of knife a coin as 'payment' for the knife. I don't know the origin, but I believe it goes back in time since a time prior to paper money.

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