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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by shanew
11/22/2013 05:36 am
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Well that is quite amazing to be absolutely honest with you. I am thinking at the moment it would have to be fake but it would be one very interesting fake I mean it's not everyday someone tries to pass of silver as copper and as such it would probably be a higher quality fake of sorts or a jewelers copy? otherwise nice find shanew
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Pillar of the Community
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THANK OH MY FLORIN it came from a jar of coin I just scan a magnet over every coin just by chance and why fake a 1952 penny what w waist of time has no value
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Anytime shanew you always tend to come up with interesting coins and how about that for luck. Anyway why it was faked is unknown prehaps the forgers had a lot more silver than copper lol. My guess would probably be a jewelers copy of sorts but I'll wait for others to give their opinions
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Pillar of the Community
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the jar is full of weird coin the owner was a repair man of penny arcade machines at manly wharf in the 40s and 50s about 2kg of smashed and crashed coins I will post another one from the same lot
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The "silver" inner is likely to be steel, not silver. It's a steel fake. Why make a fake penny? If it came from a bucket of odds'n'ends from someone who worked with coin machinery back in predecimal days, then it presumably came from circulation. In which case, the answer to "why?" is no doubt, "because some criminals found a way to make copper-plated steel fake pennies that cost less than 1 penny to make".
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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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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the magnet seems to like to stick to the coating and not the bare silver part and how could I take a bit more of the coating from it to see if it the coating that is magnetic
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sap you could be right it could be cupro nic under the copper as to were I have scrapped the coating it leave no marks on the silver and is very hard
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Valued Member
Australia
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A trip of a coin, I could use it as a Magic Prop  . Neat find!! jpl.. Edited by jpl
11/23/2013 02:16 am
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Australia
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I'm thinking it might be have been dipped or electroplated as part of a gift to mark a special year or event for someone. You know, bronzed baby shoes mounted with a bronzed penny to celebrate a birth. Maybe given the inner material, they were especially made as a prop, rather than use a real coin, for this purpose?
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Pillar of the Community
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ah not another prop props are just following me at the moment
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Pillar of the Community
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UPDATES hi all I just realized that on the heads side the FIDEI on the edge is British coin and other side used the Melbourne varieties b62 from the renniks so now could this be a mule I have matched every mm with the British 1952 penny and the 1952 date is the same as the Melbourne die in the varieties so now I am really confused its magnetic it has a British side and a Australian side HOPE THIS MAKES SENCE
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Pillar of the Community
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Shane, the Australian KGVI pennies changed from 1949 onwards removing the IND: IMP: and extending the F:D: to FIDEI DEF. Hope this helps.
Edited by The Unicorn
11/26/2013 11:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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That's right The Unicorn well spotted and I believe it was quite controvesial back in the day when it was removed or shortened I believe it means "Defender of the Faith"
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thanks unicorn got very exited for w time there
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