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I'm Drawing A Blank. (Pun Intended)

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 Posted 12/11/2010  6:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adam_E to your friends list
SBA dollars are smaller then half dollars, aren't they?
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 Posted 12/11/2010  8:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppertop5150 to your friends list
foreign?
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 Posted 12/11/2010  9:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adam_E to your friends list
that is my thought but what could it be?
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 Posted 12/11/2010  9:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppertop5150 to your friends list
foreign , geez with all the countries before the euro , it could be almost anything
if you go to world coins. you might be able to match diameter size but your gonna be going through a lot of coins
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 Posted 12/11/2010  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scooby Due to your friends list
Where did you get it Adam?
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 Posted 12/11/2010  10:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scooby Due to your friends list
Ah, I guess they had no insight as to where it came from?
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 Posted 12/11/2010  10:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list
Well, it is a coin planchet - that much is pretty obvious. What it is and where it is from would be tough to figure out. I guess it's time to hunt through a krause that matches your planchet's weight and metal. Looks like nickel in the image - it's not silver.
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 Posted 12/11/2010  11:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adam_E to your friends list
i wish I had a krause. and I wish i'd be able to find out out the value... would that be possible?
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 Posted 12/12/2010  12:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Canadian-Banknotes to your friends list
Looks almost like a Canadian Quarter Planchet
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 Posted 12/12/2010  01:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adam_E to your friends list
its too big for a Canadian quarter. remember, this is bigger then a half dollar
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Whoops, sorry about that.
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 Posted 12/12/2010  02:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list
At first I thought it may be a Canadian dollar proof. I.E.; 1970's
Diameter is about right but the proofs weigh 15.3 grams.
Is it nickel or steel ? Magnet it.
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 Posted 12/12/2010  02:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list

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I guess it's time to hunt through a krause that matches your planchet's weight and metal. Looks like nickel in the image - it's not silver.

The problem there is that Krause doesn't give weights for most non-precious-metal coins.

It's also entirely possible that it's not a coin blank at all, but a blank token, for use someplace that prefers not to advertise itself on its tokens. Let me give you an example.

The City Council here in Brisbane where I live manages several "waste transfer stations" - that's their euphemism for a landfill. City residents are allowed several trips to the dump per year for free, and access for them was (and still is) controlled by tokens - when you arrive at the gate they give you a token, which lets you leave without paying - everyone else has to have their vehicle weighed before and after, and pay for the difference in weight.

When the system was first introduced, the tokens were pretty, with the council logo on one side and text saying what the token was for on the other. A bit too pretty, perhaps, since they started losing them far faster than expected, and it was easy enough for a token pilferer to say "I lost my token at the tip face". So when Council had replacement tokens made, they looked pretty much like your "blank" there, with no design on them at all. I think the blank slugs have had a far lower rate of "disappearance".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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 Posted 12/12/2010  10:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adam_E to your friends list
i just checked and its......non magnetic
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