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Pillar of the Community
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this seems interesting...... Sadly I have no clue as to the authenticity of this.
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Rest in Peace
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Valued Member
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No its not IMO because the bottom half appears to be the regular thickness...appears to be altered
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And you can c the stress marks on rim where its been bent
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm not very familiar with electroplating, but perhaps it is a trick coin that has been heated. It appears as though it may have been in a fire or heated with a torch.
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Definitely a fake you can see the smooth surface on the bottom layer which indicates its the obv of the coin....and the thickness is the most prevalent to me huge difference in size lamination never occurs with a coin split in two...heat treated, as seen by the smoke marks and one has been cut in half and placed on the original. Normally good fakes they cut the coin directly in half but the thickness is all wrong even for begginer could counter fitters...
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09/06/2012 11:26 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes, clad clamshell separations can occur naturally just as a coin can completely lose a clad layer. Clamshells can be hard errors to find because they tend to break off due to handling or because of some hamfisted simpleton prying on it with a screw driver  However, this coin is not one of those clamshell errors. High heat will also cause the separation of clad layers, sometimes manifested strictly as an internal separation that looks like a bubble or a clamshell separation such as your coin or this one. Edited by biokemist6
09/06/2012 11:56 pm
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I disagree.....the other looks like a fake also and both are un-certified...weight should be determined and the center of coin is suppose to be copper which would make it sandwiched with the outer layers being white.....according to pics this is not the case.
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Bedrock of the Community
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That was the whole point of my post- the bubble and clamshell I linked were heat-treated, i.e. nothing but damaged coins, just like the coin that is the subject of this thread. If you are saying the dime missing a clad layer is fake, then you are wrong as that coin is in my personal error collection.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yep, this one is only damage imo.
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Not saying that at all....sry for mis-interpretation...i have seen a few coins missing a layer but none split...that would be easily identified during minting
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Why don't people educate themselves when attempting to buy these things! Someone payed 16 dollars plus shipping for a damaged, clad kennedy.
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Posted 09/06/2012 10:39 pm
