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A Guessing Game

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 Posted 06/07/2015  10:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TaeKenDo to your friends list
Looks like there is a rev. die clash so that might give a good hint.
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 Posted 06/07/2015  10:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add M_d_in_guy to your friends list
1973 mounted police SB

Edit; oops, LB
Edited by M_d_in_guy
06/07/2015 10:36 pm
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 Posted 06/07/2015  10:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fourmack to your friends list

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I know this is kind of cheating, but I looked up New Zealand's coinage on Wikipedia and found the information given to be close to the pre-2006 10 cent piece, with the following reverse: 'A Maori koruru, or carved head.'

Na Wrong as it would have a date
Cheers Don

Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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 Posted 06/07/2015  10:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list
Capped die strike?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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 Posted 06/07/2015  11:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alexer to your friends list
1968 typical weak strike 50% silver?
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 Posted 06/08/2015  12:08 am  Show Profile   Check SPP-Ottawa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add SPP-Ottawa to your friends list
Assuming that the coin was struck at the RCM (why else would it be in this forum), that diameter is distinctly Canadian 25c, so the lesser weight means it is a 1968 silver 25c.

Silver and copper have different densities (10.49g/cm3 for Silver and 8.96g/cm3 for Copper), the 80% and 50% coins should have either different weights, if volume remains equal. Doing the math, if an 80% Ag coin had a weight of 5.83g, it should have a volume of 0.5725 cm3; a 50% Ag coin with a volume of 0.5725cm3 should then have a weight of 5.57g.
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 Posted 06/08/2015  05:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SHAFTA9a to your friends list

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Whats on the other side?


Don't know..
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 Posted 06/08/2015  06:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add aardspeed to your friends list
new zeland mule?
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 Posted 06/08/2015  11:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ace_ftw to your friends list
And we are all assuming it is not some sort of Hobo Quarter
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 Posted 06/08/2015  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fourmack to your friends list
The other side
I had to look twice at this 1 to see how it was done

your thoughts?

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Cheers Don

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 Posted 06/08/2015  4:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T1Steel to your friends list
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 Posted 06/08/2015  4:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ace_ftw to your friends list
you can see the cut line along the tips of the dentices. this should come apart.
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 Posted 06/08/2015  4:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nickelodeon to your friends list
This looks like it could be the work of a very creative machinist.
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 Posted 06/08/2015  5:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list
You can see that the font is a different size on each side.
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 Posted 06/08/2015  6:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheCoinHunter to your friends list
Similar to the nickel I posted not long ago. One coin hollowed out and the other inserted.
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