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patsass New Member Canada 16 Posts	Posted 03/09/2012 11:07 pm Hi, I found this 1997 5 cents with a kind of golden color. Later I found a 1998 with the exact same color. Have you seen this before? Report this Post to the Staff

Coiladdict Valued Member 141 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 12:26 am That's interesting. I haven't seen that before. Nice patsass Report this Post to the Staff
staircase Valued Member Canada 241 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 02:10 am That's a nice tone for a '97. That colourization occurs in other years, and can be found in PL sets also. Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 05:17 am Can you post a photo of the whole coin? Nickel tends to tone a nice gold or blue. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
patsass New Member Canada 16 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 12:50 pm It's not easy to capture the exact color. The real one looks more like the first picture, the second one is too dark. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 4:12 pm Due to the copper content of the coin. After 1981, Canadian 5-cents are 75%-25% Cu-Ni alloys... roll ends tone nicely too... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 03/10/2012 4:37 pm So...Does that mean SPP that if I took a 1981 or later nickel and left it in the sunlight, it would tone faster...?...Or is that sort of thinking just too far out there...? Edited by wert 03/10/2012 4:38 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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