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abderrahim Valued Member 301 Posts	Posted 12/25/2012 8:36 pm Hi all, I think I have one cent 1859 brass but I want your opinion, thanks. Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 12/25/2012 11:30 pm Does not look like any of the brass ones I have seen. I know from experience that colour alone is not a good enough indicator. For the cost of a stamp, I can definitively tell you the composition of your coin (non-destructive analysis). The caveat is, the analytical results are made public, via a formal publication. Send me a PM, and any number of veteran folks here (including some of the administrators) can vouch for me. "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 Edited by SPP-Ottawa 12/25/2012 11:32 pm Report this Post to the Staff
abderrahim Valued Member 301 Posts	Posted 12/27/2012 11:05 am Good morning SPP-Ottawa, thank you for agreeing to check the 1 cent 1859 to me. I'll send you a PM for your address. Report this Post to the Staff
artdio Pillar of the Community 1844 Posts	Posted 12/27/2012 12:41 pm 100% sure its not brass... If you want to check it take a piece of glass and make a very small scratch on the edge...Glass will not change the color...If its brass it will be a shiny yellow...If its red its copper or bronze.... Report this Post to the Staff
abderrahim Valued Member 301 Posts	Posted 01/31/2013 8:09 pm SPP-Ottawa, Thank you very much for all the work and time you put it to examine my 1 cent. SPP-Ottawa wrote: Tested by XRF, your 1859 fulls within normal bronze values. Report this Post to the Staff
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