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Pillar of the Community
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SPP -Ottawa... coincommunity won't allow me to PM you because I am a newbie.  can you contact me directly? I have allowed emails in my profile. thanks! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
870 Posts |
I have taken up the offer from SPP-Ottawa. He is going to test my penny in his XRF machine. The penny is on its way to Ottawa and I will post the results here when I get them! Thanks for all your input.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You're sending it to the right guy...Let's hope that it's real...  . Good luck..  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I was wondering if you got this back yet and what the results are. Curious
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 Canada
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The XRF is out for a software and hardware upgrade. I hope to get it back first week of January.
In hand, I am pretty confident that this coin is struck on a foreign planchet, most likely a New Zealand Cu-Ni 5-cent planchet. This is a series of errors that I collect, and I am quite confident in it being legit. The XRF should be able to confirm this shortly.
Time to unplug the toaster.... Christmas time...
"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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well that sounds interesting thanks for the update SPP. Sounds like you found a winner robmck1967 |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hope you have a winner |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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British and New Zealand sixpences after 1946, and Australian and New Zealand five cent coins weigh 2.8 grammes. They are copper nickel, not pure nickel. NONE of them are magnetic.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 It sounds promising but I guess I'll have to wait until next year to find out for sure!  thanks SPP Ottawa! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's all about the magnets, I was looking into scraping computers... yet another of my way TOO massive collections and found out that the magnets in some hard drives are rare earth magnets. Sap had mentioned: Quote:
The effect you are seeing is diamagnetism - it is actually being repelled by the magnet, not attracted to it. You need one of those super-powerful rare-earth magnets to see this effect on a coin.
I have not ripped one open yet but if anyone really needed one of them then dig into your tech scrap pile, or someone else's |
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Canada
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Tested the coin today. It is 75% Cu and 25% Ni, genuine off-metal error (i.e., foreign planchet). See my earlier post as to what planchet I suspect it is.
"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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Congratulations!! That makes it a very desirable piece.
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01/09/2014 9:41 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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...way to go |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Amazing! How does something like that even happen?
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