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Could I Have Found A 2006 $1 Proof

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 Posted 01/17/2013  03:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add flippy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Shanew ring up a few jewelery shops that buy gold or any other shop that buys scrap gold and see if they have a spectrometer. If they do go and get them to scan it, it will put to rest what composition this coin is.
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 Posted 01/17/2013  03:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Call me an optimist but a coin of this size and mass just SCREAMS GOLD to me
If I found something like this in my change I would be pretty excited about it

Another scenario with this is it could be a jewelers copy, not unlike they have done in the past with sovereigns Krugerrands and US gold coins for jewelry copies for use in pendants,rings etc.
You just never know
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 Posted 01/17/2013  6:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add markn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Can you measure how thick it is?
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 Posted 01/17/2013  6:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oh my florin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well this is very interesting finding a gold coin in circulation
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Ok, so it's now been weighed by a Jeweller at 25.2g and at Cash Converters at 25.15g.

I think the Renniks guide actually has the 2006 set a fraction heavier than the other sets, but still around the 21-22g weight.

No tools, no leaving the house method.
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1.Get a ruler and a round pen.
2.On a table, place the ruler on the pen until you find the balance point. (ie: both ends of the ruler are off the table).
3. See where the balance point is in the middle of the ruler (ie: at 15cm etc ... centre of the pen)
4.Now put 2 normal $1 coins on one end of the ruler, this coin on the other. If this coin lowers the ruler to the table I think you're in business.
5.Recheck that the balance point is located in the same place. (ie: you didn't accidently move the ruler when putting on the coins).

The Gatton bank would have had fun bagging that coin up! (unless it was in a $500 bag).

Imagine if it's a 1 in 300 out in the pond!
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I reckon we're being had
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 Posted 01/17/2013  9:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add The Unicorn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Totally understand where you are coming from enworb. I think there has been a bit of it going on since your little mate at the deli was around.

So perhaps Quangmanstyle has become the new forum craze.

Undoubtedly with all the eyes, ears and opinions here whatever is the score will be revealed.
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 Posted 01/17/2013  9:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oh my florin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I dont know how it would have gotten into circulation but hey I think everyone is so excited because its very unique and the amount of luck that it would take for it to get into circulation and then into a collectors hand is quite amazing. We may be being had but its not unheard of I heard a little while ago this happened in America where a person had gotten a coin in change and then it turned out to be 91.67% gold.
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 Posted 01/17/2013  9:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add enworb to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
But the weight isn't consistent with the gold $1 coins that have been produced by the RAM.
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I've heard of people getting gold coins in change or in rolls... just very, very rarely.

It would be quite amazing really.... since 1934, the chance is less than one in ten million... a logical improbability...
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 Posted 01/17/2013  9:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add flippy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
we are being had. He has posted on 4 topics all of them he started.

1. about a proof dollar/Gold dollar
2. about a 50c trial coin
3&4. about a 'Mule' a Buffalo nickle with a strange edge


All of the posts are about coins that if real would be very expensive coins.
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 Posted 01/17/2013  10:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nevol to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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we are being had. He has posted on 4 topics all of them he started.
Actually, there are 6 posts all started by the OP, so you could be right!
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 Posted 01/17/2013  10:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FNQ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Can you measure how thick it is?
From appearance in the 3rd and 4th photos, it seems to be identical to a typical $1 coin.

The appearance in the photos also shows a nice lustre consistent with a near uncirculated Al/Br composition coin.
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 Posted 01/17/2013  11:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add flippy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thanks nancy I didn't see the other 2
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 Posted 01/18/2013  02:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shanew to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
hey flippy your not being had I have many very rare stuff ie like 1983 20 struck on copper pcgs ms64 1976 1c on a sixpence pcgs pr61 1978 1c struck on alumininm planchet pcgs ms62 no date 10 struck with 2 reverce dies 2007 5c double heads the 1988 trial 50c 2008 double tail trick coin and many gold sov so if you would like me to take a pic with me holding them maybe with a paper for dateing also if all you have to do is have 4 post from someone and you all think you are being had maybe you are being had every day so if this is the type off help you get on this site I dont think its the place for me
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