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New Member
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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1983 nickels are actually cupronickel, so they are not magnetic. I think the colour is because of environmental damage.
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New Member
 Canada
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Weird. Anyway to see if there is environmental wear?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Your coin looks like a coin found in the ground using a metal detector.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Welcome to CCF
Certainly looks like it spent time out doors but your coin is not an error coin..keep looking though.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 It's always great to have a new CCF member next door. mdpmedia - US |
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New Member
Canada
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Cool great , think I'll Google that article for some light reading later.
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Forum Kid
Canada
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Yes I agree with environmental damage and wear, would anybody guess that it is copper we are seeing? it is supposed to be non-magnetic because of the nickel plating and copper. CuproNickel.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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You won't be able to find the article unless you are a member.(highly recommended)
There is no nickel plating on these, cupronickel is an alloy.
The only way to determine if the coin is copper-rich is by XRF analysis.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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Im pretty sure this is a alloy mixing error.I had one exactly the same and I think it was same year.. There was more copper than normal this is why the copper color.. SPP has the details on this type.. If I am correct you will find them in several other years also
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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There is NO plating on the 1983 5 cent coin. This coin is a mixing error from the mint. I have numerous MINT STATE examples. It is not environmental damage. Please look up cupro-nickel and understand the term.
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Oh come on Mike... are you sure this is not a "snowbank" coin?  (inside joke, for the rest of you...) "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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10/17/2014 11:44 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've sent a few of these nickels back into the wild assuming they where PMD..thinking campfire coin, school experiment or environmental. So for me this is a good lesson..thanks to nickelsguy  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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aaargh......................LOL TY Roger. Fishing either 1-2 or 8-9 Nov.
For years on another coin site I argued about these 5 cent coins. I was told snow bank coin, ground find etc etc etc then proved it as aq mixing error when SPP zapped a bunch of mine and others like Sid. I now own that one as well.
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Pillar of the Community
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lol ya Mike you got mine I'm still sifting through a couple thousand nickels for other errors. Will be in touch
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New Member
Canada
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Cool thanks and thank you for your warm welcome I have a few other coins I'll probably post another time, this is great info I'll keep hold of it.
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