Can't Seem To Locate These Anywhere, Please Help?

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twylite New Member United States 15 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 03:13 am Image: 1centbk.jpg 44.32 KB Image: 1centft.jpg 43.75 KB Image: 5cbk.jpg 47.13 KB Image: 5cft.jpg 49.54 KB Image: 10centbk.jpg 45.3 KB Image: 10centft.jpg 45.51 KB Image: 50cbk.jpg 46.37 KB Image: 50cfr.jpg 42.58 KBI came across these four coins at my job. However, I can not seem to locate any info on them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Report this Post to the Staff

twylite New Member United States 15 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 03:17 am Sorry, these are all gold, lighting is really bad and does unjust for them. They are all 1963. I must get something to do better pics with. Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 03:26 am Hi Twylite Can we get a little info on what we are looking for ? what is it that you see ? a little pic help,, do you have a photo processor program ? crop the pics to just the coin, eliminate as much of the background as you can ,, adjust the white balance on your camera if it has the capability,, incandecent light will turn your pics gold color unless you set your camera to rtake pics in that type of lighting. I have saved a couple of your pics and I will see if I can bring them up a little closer, if you will do the rest it will be a big help. but until then, a small explaination of what you want us to see !! Rick Edited by Metalman 01/07/2007 03:44 am Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 03:30 am Hope your not afraid of Ghosts !! crop your pics like this !! Rick Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 03:40 am Sorry I could not bring the pics up,, they look like you may have moved a little when snapping the pic. also a bit low in resolution. If your camera has a macro setting turn it on . Rick Report this Post to the Staff
twylite New Member United States 15 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 05:33 am I guess what I am asking here, have you ever seen a set of gold electro plated sets like this? 1963 penny, nickel, dime and half. Very fine shape, scuffed up very little. I have a Sony 10x digital Mavica still camera. It uses a 3.5 floppy disk so I can download the images straight to my system. However, it does not have a micro setting. Maybe this image will help a little. I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow outside using natural lighting instead of artifical lighting. I believe that will help a lot. This camera hasn't ever really took good inside pictures but, great outside pics. Thank you for your patience and help. Image: 10centftb.jpg 18.94 KB Report this Post to the Staff
nohope587 Pillar of the Community United States 5953 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 08:02 am Its a fairly common practice for some companies to plate coins in gold. It is my belief this is done to attract collectors by offering something shiny and Gold. Any Numismatic value the coins may have had is now gone. They are now just conversation pieces. The Dime and Half Dollar will still maintain their bullion value. Just my 2 Cents woth Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 1:10 pm I agree with nohope ,,altering the coins by plating no matter what they are plated with has taken the collector (numismatic value) away from the coins,, the Half and the dime are valued just for metal content the nickel and cent are worth face value as a set they are conversation pieces . I have pulled just about a whole set out of circulation which have been gold plated, except the nickel,, none of mine are silver however. Rick Report this Post to the Staff
twylite New Member United States 15 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 10:07 pm okay, thanks, these are all silver except for the penny of course. As I stated, they are all 1963'. Just seems I saw somewhere something about a special mint set for that year. Guess I was mistaking though. You know what the gold double eagle or Liberty $ is, coated in 24kt electro plate? That is what these guys are coated in. I have found some on ebay, however I wanted something of a more monitary and stable value to go by. LOL Thank you {:-)} Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 10:24 pm the double eagles are electro plated ? The only ones that are electro plated are the tribute (copies) not the real coins ,, they are struck from Planchets which are .9167 gold. .03 silver ,,.0533 copper with a net gold weight of 1 ounce . Rick Report this Post to the Staff
pattiewhack Pillar of the Community Canada 1152 Posts	Posted 01/08/2007 7:03 pm I have one of these as well... a 1990's (too lazy to go find the actual date at this minute) gold plated Lincoln Penny. I ruined it by scraping off a few shavings off the edge to see what was below... zinc. Report this Post to the Staff
apprais1 New Member United States 9 Posts	Posted 01/19/2007 6:51 pm Just a beginner, but I saw on one of the news magazine TV shows where they took the coins the TV coin Shows sell that have been "plated". They had a couple experts discuss their opinions about them. First they said the coins have no value, now, other than for someone to look at shiny things. Then they melted the coins to find out if they were in fact truely plated with "gold" or "platinum". The gold was just barely a spec off of about 5 coins. They couldn't find any platinum at all on those coins. The Coin Show claimed that they were suppose to so the company that plated them must have "cheated" the Coin Show. Hopefully, they didn't cost to much. Report this Post to the Staff
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