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A Coin Nerd is a guy who pulls his loupe from his pocket to examine the change he just received while sitting in a bar.
Not that I'd know anything about that.
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Pillar of the Community
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Hey, hey, I resemble that remark... ok, it was Subway, not a bar, but...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fuzzy, yeah I know, I typed that in a bit of a rush. War Nickels were 35% silver. |
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The plating on modern cents is pure electrolytic copper, though.
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Rest in Peace
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A Coin Nerd is a guy who pulls his loupe from his pocket to examine the change he just received while sitting in a bar.
...which led to the invention of the loupe with a built-in light. Seriously, I TRY to wait until I get home but it is beyond my control. |
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I love the look cashiers give while I'll look at change that is handed back to me. They're always like, did I not give you the right change, and I'm like no I'm just a coin nerd lol.
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Quote:So my sister used a 2014 Lincoln Cent since the answer was copper. Then I said, "No! That's not pure copper; it's just copper-plated zinc!" I then saw a pile of cents on her desk and proceeded to pull a 1980 cent from the pile. I tossed it at her and said, "This is solid copper (I know it's not pure)." She then gave me a weird look... A combination of coin nerd, chemistry geek and pedantic literalist wouldn't have said that, because of the impurities in the bronze alloy. Rather, they'd have pulled out a large cent or Half Cent they happened to be carrying around with them, and said "Here, this one's pure copper - America hasn't issued a pure copper coin in over 150 years". Why, no, I don't know any coin-nerd-chemistry-geek-pedantic-literalists... Not at all... Oh, by the way, I fixed your spelling for you in the above quote... 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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Would you guys have done the same thing? Absolutely.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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The plating on modern cents is pure electrolytic copper, though. Until the plating solution becomes too contaminated by zinc dissolved from the blanks Then the future cents get plated with brass. Edited by Conder101
05/11/2015 11:47 am
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If only we could go back to having gold coins... Wouldn't that be nice!
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TypeCoin971793 posted:
"I then saw a pile of cents on her desk and proceded to pull a 1980 cent from the pile.
Would you guys have done the same thing?" I would have to say no as my sister would never have let me in her room in the first place...  |
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I found Arches,Great Sand Dunes,Everglades,Homestead & Kisatchie while walking back to my car from convenience store only to run back in for more .  Love them days . |
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Nice.  |
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United States
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Subject a coin to some acid test for a school chemistry experiment? NEVER! (I say, shaking my fist mightily in the air)
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United States
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A Coin Nerd is a guy who pulls his loupe from his pocket to examine the change he just received while sitting in a bar.
Not that I'd know anything about that. Did you see me at stores with my fanny pack inspecting the change from the cashier before I gave it to my wife for her coin purse? Oh wait you werent talking about me... The looks we get, my wife handing me the change and me inspecting and putting it in my fanny pack and handing her the ones I don't want. |
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Posted 05/10/2015 8:17 pm
