How did flipping a coin start to decide things?

Question:I sometimes do that and i want to know how it started and where was it originated.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I sometimes do that and i want to know how it started and where was it originated.

The historical origin of coin flipping is the interpretation of a chance outcome as the expression of divine will. A well-known example of such divination (although not involving a coin) is the episode in which the prophet Jonah was chosen by lot to be cast out of the boat, only to be swallowed by a giant fish (Book of Jonah, Chapter 1).

Coin flipping as a game was known to the Romans as "navia aut caput" (ship or head), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other[citation needed]. In England, this game was referred to as cross and pile.