Need Some Help With Copper Showing On Coin

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bullion-investor13 Valued Member United States 90 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 7:59 pm i have a coin I bought on ebay 3 years ago. I was told it could be something. I am sorry for the low quality pictures all the high points are copper coloured (the hair, the "P" and all the writing and 100% of the rim front and back Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 8:49 pm The 'P' you see at the bottom of the obverse is the mark to signify a 'Plated' coin. It is a multi-ply plating process. Steel core, thin plating layer of nickel, thick plating layer of copper and lastly a thick plating layer of nickel. What you are seeing is the erosion of the outermost nickel plating on all the high points, especially the rim, and the underlying copper plating layer being exposed. The heavy wear I see, supports this. I hope you did not pay much for it - worth 25-cents. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
noahs-numismatics Pillar of the Community Canada 3167 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 8:54 pm Report this Post to the Staff
bullion-investor13 Valued Member United States 90 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 9:00 pm it came as a lot of "100 world coins" after shipping I paid 12.5 cents a coin, so technically I got it for around half face Report this Post to the Staff
wandering Valued Member Canada 161 Posts	Posted 05/11/2013 01:48 am Actually it's rare -- most 2004 quarters didn't wear that much...yet. Edited by wandering 05/11/2013 01:49 am Report this Post to the Staff
Dave H Pillar of the Community United States 1436 Posts	Posted 05/11/2013 09:24 am Have never seen or heard anyone indicate a coin being RARE because of the extensive amount of wear that it has. I can already see E-Bay sellers using that reasoning to peddle their coins... Report this Post to the Staff
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