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Found A Diamond While Searching Rolls Of Canadian Pennies

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 Posted 07/02/2018  4:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Lots of things will scratch glass. Take it to your LCS if they do jewelry and get a dependable opinion. Congrats!
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 Posted 07/02/2018  4:55 pm  Show Profile   Check NumisRob's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add NumisRob to your friends list
An amazing find - hope it's genuine!


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(of the detector finds, if course! )
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 Posted 07/02/2018  5:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add papeldog to your friends list
You are correct coinfrog lots of things scratch glass but I believe cheap artificial diamonds will not cut glass
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 Posted 07/02/2018  5:38 pm  Show Profile   Check SPP-Ottawa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add SPP-Ottawa to your friends list
A white spinel will...

Take it to a coin store or jewelry store to confirm.
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 Posted 07/02/2018  5:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gidjit to your friends list
yes a diamond will cut glass but it is also brittle and you run a risk of chipping the diamond
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 Posted 07/02/2018  5:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gidjit to your friends list
for those of you who think its tough to take a good pic of a coin try a small diamond, I cant seem to capture the sparkle when I zoom in but here are a few more pics one with a scale over it, looks to be 1.8 mm wide, its in a 2x2 right now so the diamond is facing straight up also seeing through the plastic, the best close up is through a stereo microscope I got from another member here, I think its too perfectly cut to be glass I might pull out my black light as most diamonds glow under the light
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 Posted 07/02/2018  6:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gidjit to your friends list
i know if its either fake or real its not worth alot but it sure beats finding toenails and hair(i hate to think what kind of hair it might be)
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 Posted 07/02/2018  7:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add papeldog to your friends list
Its still a nice find and kind of a treasure, I agree with others take it to a jeweler to check it out
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 Posted 07/03/2018  12:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list
Amazing find!
Hope it turns out to be real.
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 Posted 07/03/2018  01:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tootallious to your friends list
That is indeed a rare and great find! My thought on this is that someone's wife/mother was rolling up some pennies to take to the bank and the diamond or one of the diamonds from her ring got snagged while se had her ring finger in the bottom of the roll as she was using her other hand to drop the pennies in. As most people are left handed this would make sense as she used her dominant hand to grab and drop the pennies in the roll. That is why it was on the top or at the end of the roll

Regardless of how it got there, I would be as excited as you!
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 Posted 07/03/2018  1:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add loonielewy to your friends list
You just might have the 1st generation Swarovski crystal penny there.. .

Seriously, good find and hope it's real.
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You just might have the 1st generation Swarovski crystal penny there


on bringing it to a coin store or a jeweller, hope it's real.
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 Posted 07/06/2018  03:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add AgCoinAu to your friends list
Breathe on the stone in question.... if it fogs up.. it's fake.... if it doesn't that's good.

lay the stone in question either on newspaper/print or on a piece of paper with a dot.... (place it flat side down and pointed side up)

if you can read the newspaper or make out the dot in anyway it's a fake...

Finally you can take it to a jeweler but I would recommend taking it to a trusted source and NEVER letting the diamond out of your sight for obvious reasons
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 Posted 07/19/2018  06:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add loonielewy to your friends list
Any news? .
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 Posted 07/19/2018  4:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gidjit to your friends list

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Any news?
i keep forgetting to have it looked at I will try to today or tomorrow
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