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Good to hear your view foundinrolls, chemically altered, No it doesn't look tampered with, Could not have been found in a fountain at malls or dug up by a metal detectorist, why Its very easy I'm a Metal Detectorist and I know what coins look like when dug up or even after long periods of time and even if they where cleaned that is, So that would leave it Impossible for it to be dug up. But If you can see the similarity's from the Yellow and dark Toning on both of them, Colors that blend with silver metal, together out of sequence. The progression is yellow then magenta, and on and on and on.  Thanks for your view, I would like to hear more from you and others. Edited by Silver Gorilla
05/02/2008 8:32 pm
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Though there is the possibility that it has been dipped! Quote:
No jeremymh. I have not done that sort of stuff, or anything, to the coin. I don't think he was insinuating that you yourself dipped the coin. He was pointing out that the coin has been around 61 years, and a WHOLE LOT can happen in that time frame! Have you had the coin in your possession for 61 years? Did you get it uncirculated? If not, then it has had PLENTY of time to be chemically altered somehow, somewhere, sometime, in the last 6.1 decades. |
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ratio411 Good to hear from you, I don't know where you got the idea that Jeremymh, was insinuating me,, meaning that he was provoking gradual doubt, or making a suspicious suggestive, witch on your part trying to say that he was insinuating me and making remarks.... Nope not at all, we where having a good time chatting about what might be a Nickel Struck on a silver Planchet.
Well any way thanks for your View.
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I found a 1958D nickel that is whiter than that today. It actually looks like a 40% half in color.
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That coin to me looks like it was mercury dipped.
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Hi 1913-V Thanks for you view. Any way what would really happen if Nickel where to be dipped in Mercury..? wouldn't it look like it was polished right. But then again I could be (Going Nuts) I'm getting scared I'm starting to believe that this coin was is Struck on a silver planchet.
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No the mercury coins dont look polished they actually look like silver in a way. If the coin was a silver planchett it will not look like the 1943 at all. The coin will be alot whiter. I would advise to take the coin to a jeweler and have him or her do a metal test on it. But I really dont think its silver. Best thing to do is compare it with silver coins not a 1943.
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I already tested the coin I cant tell if there is any silver in the coin, but I did try to hear if they would sound different from each other, by thunging the coin one at a time, and ill tell ya they sound the same this would have to be dun by an Expert in Metals, that would place the coin in a sealed box of some-sort gadget and examine it with electric or electron devises but god knows what else they can do to spot or tell it was struck on a silver planchet, I do know this, Silver nickels are distinguished by a slightly different coloration than ordinary nickels, and this one really looks different from all the other nickels.
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SG...call your local jeweler (one who has a gold and silversmith on staff.) They can usually test the electrical conductivity of any metal, compare it to a chart they have, and give you a very good idea of the composition.
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I highly doubt it's mercury...
I also highly doubt it's silver.
Most likely environmental damage caused by some sort of chemical exposure, either intentional or unintentional...produces the same result. A damaged coin worth a nickel.
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hunter20ga that sounds like a good idea, but now that coppercoins says he doubts it being struck on a silver planchet, ill tack his word on it, and that is, its most likely environmental damage by some sort of chemical exposure. Thanks coppercoins thanks hunter20ga. Well to bad that I thought it could of been struck on a silver planchet.
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Let me explain something. When metal detecting, the coins come up looking different depending upon the soil conditions. Nickels that I dug up at the beach on Long Island in NY looked like this.
Nickels that I dug up in PA often looked red or brown.
Nickels that I've dug up here in WA look dark grey.
The soil means everything.
The next point is that years ago, I worked for a mall, I saw thousands of nickels that came out of the pools and fountains, they also looked like this. The chemicals in the water would eat the zinc-plated cents and the nickels would be damaged by the chemicals in the water as well as the residue of the corroding cents.
In any case, the coin may not look like what you are used to seeing when metal detecting depending upon your location.
The coin is not silver, it is just discolored.
Thanks,
Bill
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I got it THanks foundinrolls
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Got a metal detector? The detector will make a different sound for a copper nickel five cent than for a silver one because of the different ways that they affect the magnetic field lines around the coil.
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Conder101 I have never thought about that, Really it was like jeeeees why didn't I think of that. And I have tried it and there is no SILVER IN THE NICKEL, Nun what so ever.
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