ok, I am already crazy.
Posted 09/14/2016 04:04 am
I do love LotR myself, I've even been to Hobbiton in New Zealand a few years ago (and a few other film locations, like Rivendell). It was amazing. 
I actually have been looking to buy the LotR series, but didn't as they were just too expensive for what's being offered. I actually was hoping that the price would go down as soon as the hype around the movies was over. It isn't happening yet, but I'm not dead yet, so there's still time.
For what I know, it's not mandatory to put such information about the purity and weight on the coin. I do believe it's something more or less exclusive to certain modern bullion rounds. In the 'good old days', when regular coins still were made of precious metals by default, a lot of them didn't have any information on weight or silver content on them. That was more or less reserved for some trade coinage, for what I know.
Now your coin actually puts me in doubt. For what I know, there are cupronickel and silver coins of this one, both with the same design and, the horror, also the same weight: just over 28 grams. For what I know, the cupronickel one usually comes in a 'LotR-card' and the silver one comes in a case from the Pobjoy mint. You seem to have the latter. However, for what I know, it should also come with a certificate, as the silver series is limited and should have the coins numbered. What also puzzles me a bit is that your coin is actually sold for the 'cupronickel' price, which is about $25, where the silver one goes for about $100 nowadays. So either you got a cupronickel coin at the regular price or you bought the bargain of the year.
In other words, I can't help you here based on the information I have. You can try to contact the Pobjoy mint and hear if there are any more ways to identify your coin. I think that's what I would have done here.
For testers: usually it's sufficient to measure securely: the weight, the diameter and the thickness of the coin. That doesn't exclude that your gold coin is a gold plated tungsten one, though. Alternatively you can try to find a jeweler who can x-ray it. What I certainly wouldn't do is try to determine if it's real precious metal via any chemical testing: that will irreversibly destroy your coins.
ps. For your date... girls absolutely love replies like that. I guess you two are married now and live happily ever after?
I actually have been looking to buy the LotR series, but didn't as they were just too expensive for what's being offered. I actually was hoping that the price would go down as soon as the hype around the movies was over. It isn't happening yet, but I'm not dead yet, so there's still time.
For what I know, it's not mandatory to put such information about the purity and weight on the coin. I do believe it's something more or less exclusive to certain modern bullion rounds. In the 'good old days', when regular coins still were made of precious metals by default, a lot of them didn't have any information on weight or silver content on them. That was more or less reserved for some trade coinage, for what I know.
Now your coin actually puts me in doubt. For what I know, there are cupronickel and silver coins of this one, both with the same design and, the horror, also the same weight: just over 28 grams. For what I know, the cupronickel one usually comes in a 'LotR-card' and the silver one comes in a case from the Pobjoy mint. You seem to have the latter. However, for what I know, it should also come with a certificate, as the silver series is limited and should have the coins numbered. What also puzzles me a bit is that your coin is actually sold for the 'cupronickel' price, which is about $25, where the silver one goes for about $100 nowadays. So either you got a cupronickel coin at the regular price or you bought the bargain of the year.
In other words, I can't help you here based on the information I have. You can try to contact the Pobjoy mint and hear if there are any more ways to identify your coin. I think that's what I would have done here.
For testers: usually it's sufficient to measure securely: the weight, the diameter and the thickness of the coin. That doesn't exclude that your gold coin is a gold plated tungsten one, though. Alternatively you can try to find a jeweler who can x-ray it. What I certainly wouldn't do is try to determine if it's real precious metal via any chemical testing: that will irreversibly destroy your coins.
ps. For your date... girls absolutely love replies like that. I guess you two are married now and live happily ever after?
