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Litotes
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Norway
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This coin comes in three different metals. My coin is definitely not the silver variety, but I do not know how to separate Titanium from Virenium.
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Dude whats Virenium? Sounds cool though. Id like to get a virenium metal
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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``Virenium is a German Silver type of alloy containing nickel as well as copper and zinc with a magnetic element as a built in security device. It was first used by the Isle of Man. It has the composition 81% Copper, 10% Zinc and 9% Nickel.``
In this case, it's viranium. The titanium one only weighs 10 grams and I'm guessing this one weighs more than that.
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Moderator
Australia
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Virenium is a pale yellow, brassy colour. Titanium is silvery-white.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Norway
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Pillar Of The Community
Australia
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Titanium is much too difficult to be worked as coinage metal. In a coin, it would only have novelty value, as NCLT.
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Valued Member
Norway
476 Posts |
sel_69l, quite obviously nobody has entertained the idea of making proper circulation coinage in titanium. This coin has NCLT written all over it - at you can see in the word beginning and ending with M. Still, a new metal is fun. Now to find a coin in lead. Shouldn't be impossible, but if it was easy I would have it already...
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Pillar Of The Community
Australia
6478 Posts |
I have two lead coins:
1. Ishvakanids South India Obv. Ujjain symbol, Rev.elephant facing left. 11 mm dia., c/- 230 -310 AD., 3 grammes
2. Khmer kingdom of Angkor, floral 3 lead unit. penta lobe rim, 3mm central hole, about 25mm dia., c/- 1450 AD. floral design both sides. 15 grammes.
These sorts of coins come into your collection on a once in a lifetime oportunity. Both were purchased at a Sydney coin show, for not much money.
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Valued Member
United States
228 Posts |
Nice titanium coin, I have the exact same one. It's really cool to handle it, it feels so airy...
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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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Virenium is seldomly used in coins, that only less number of coins is made using them compared to Silver. Nice coin you have there.
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Pillar Of The Community
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Recently, I viewed an aircraft almost entirely constructed from titanium. The metal has a very distinctive appearance, but it can also be separated from copper alloys by thermal conductivity. Not that you would do this, but this coin would actually feel warm against your skin.
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Australia
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A lot of the World's titanium comes from coastal sand up to a depth of about 3 metres, that is found on the East Coast of Australia. The mineral is Rutile and is black. The reason for this is the titanium dioxide, which is white, (can be used for pigments) and it's associated mineral, (zirconium dioxide), is carbon black.
The World's fastest aircraft, the Lockheed Blackbird (A 11 and A12) are largely constructed from titanium. All have been withdrawn from service. Observational satelites do a better job far more cheaply. That means Australian coastal forests that grow where these black sands are found, are less under threat.
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Valued Member
Serbia (Srbija)
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Im must say I never heard of Virenium before.
"Navikli smo da, naime, vladamo tuđim, a ne drugi našim ,u to smo sigurni dok bude ratova I mačeva"
Daurentije
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Australia
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"Im must say I never heard of Virenium before."
shake hands, me neither :)
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Posted 12/08/2011 5:04 pm
