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wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 01/05/2014 8:19 pm Hi..can anyone tell me why these two identical coins would be a different colour..One is gold and the other is silver..? * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

ASLAN TVorlon Pillar of the Community United States 1234 Posts	Posted 01/05/2014 8:51 pm Is there a year mark on either of them? If you look at the "How far back can we go? Second Edition!" thread you will see a nice bit of history about composition changes during war time, https://goccf.com/t/161525&whichpage=34 has some nice looking 'Silver cents'... they look silver-ish but are in fact steel. and look the same as the 1942's and 44's. even if you coin is not from war time the composition changes all the time, some times one mint makes copper the next make copper-nickel or they run out and change mid year, a lot of things can change the metal in a coin. Report this Post to the Staff
wert Rest in Peace 1988 Posts	Posted 01/05/2014 8:54 pm Thanks ASLAN TVorlon for the info and link. Report this Post to the Staff
ASLAN TVorlon Pillar of the Community United States 1234 Posts	Posted 01/05/2014 9:32 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16850 Posts	Posted 01/05/2014 11:19 pm They are not coins, but tokens. "Wert-marke" translates from German as "value token". Governments are under some obligation to not change the composition of their coinage un-necessarily; it creates confusion and causes difficulties in Counterfeit Detection, etc. Token-makers are under no such obligation; they are free to make their tokens out of whatever they (or their customers) wish. Indeed, if two nearby shops are both using tokens of the same design, they will probably wish their tokens to have a different appearance, so they cannot be easily interchanged. The tokens may actually be made of different metals, or one of the tokens may have been plated, either by the token manufacturer or by the end-user of the token. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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