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 Posted 12/13/2015  7:36 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Jim Delaney to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Is this real. It looks like it was holed for a loop.


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 Posted 12/13/2015  10:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't see anything that would say it isn't real.
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 Posted 12/13/2015  10:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Have a look into the hole for metal texture.
Need a powerful loupe or USB microscope to do this; does one of your friends have one, or a loupe?
There is the possibility that silver crystallization could be found, lending support to the idea that this coin could be centuries old.
Silver crystallization takes centuries to develop.

For examples of silver crystallization, refer to Google Images search: 'Ancient coin silver crystallization'.
Silver crystallization will greatly weaken a silver object and in this case may have been the cause, and why the hole was broken out.
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Jim: I like your avatar; I have a dozen or so car wash tokens of exactly the same design!
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12/13/2015 10:49 pm
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 Posted 12/14/2015  8:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jim Delaney to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The silver is crystallized which appears to be a good thing. Any ideas on time/year of this coin?
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 Posted 12/16/2015  1:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tom Goodheart to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Depends how thick it is. It appears to be a William I PAXS penny. 1083-1086

However the details are not as crisp as I would expect and the edges make it look thick, as if it were a pewter replica. Real silver pennies are thin.

Bit like this maybe?

http://dorchesters.com/william-i-th...ny-paxs-type

Real ones weigh 1.2g-1.4g Replicas double that probably...
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12/16/2015 1:43 pm
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 Posted 12/16/2015  2:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jim Delaney to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
weighs 1.73g and is silver. One edge is thick and the opposte edge is almost paper thin.
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 Posted 02/05/2016  06:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add philys4 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could be a Norman coin u have paxs in the quadrants and what could be pillem on obverse
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