193? Mercury Dime Error? - Coin Community Forum

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Talonbat Valued Member Canada 395 Posts	Posted 02/29/2016 5:03 pm So I have this Mercury dime that looks very weird, I think it is 1931 but I could be wrong. At first I thought someone just plated this piece of crap but after some inspection, measurements and weighing it doesn't fit right. It weighs 2.00 gram(got a new scale today which started this) so it is severely underweight yet both the diameter and thickness are slightly more then what it should be. Here are the best pictures I could get. Let me know what you think any opinions at all would help maybe it's wrong planchet, PMD with plating, counterfeit I really have no idea. Little history got this in a pile of silver coins that have not seen the light of day from the mid 60s so if it is a counterfeit or something it would be an old one at that. That is just a normal 1944 Mercury dime beside it in the picture for scale and colour. Also it is not magnetic and has almost no reeding left around the rim with reeding only showing very weakly in some places. Sorry for the picture quality best I could do. Edited by Talonbat 02/29/2016 5:21 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 02/29/2016 5:15 pm A good deal of the coin has been eradicated, so the weight doesn't really bother me. I think it's just mangled. Report this Post to the Staff
Talonbat Valued Member Canada 395 Posts	Posted 02/29/2016 5:21 pm To me it doesn't make sense that it's thicker in both diameter and thickness and is still 20% under weight. But I'm no expert. Also it doesn't look or feel like silver at all. Edited by Talonbat 02/29/2016 5:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 02/29/2016 8:51 pm Railroad track + acid = this. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 03/01/2016 12:18 pm I'm thinking more like contemporary counterfeit. Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5832 Posts	Posted 03/12/2016 3:26 pm I agree with Condor101, since the piece isn't silver? You can do the sound test by dropping it on a hard surface and compare it with the real one. Report this Post to the Staff
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