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Looks like someone got a very hot soldering iron for Christmas and tried it out on the coin
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That is a great find from the wild! The bronze colored metal looks like weld spatter to me. I don't think that it can be easily separated from the coin.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Bedrock of the Community
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I agree with mtuna3. Looks like solder damage.
Errers and Varietys.
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Well, it could be solder, but I'm doubtful that the solder gun (600 to 700 °F) would get hot enough to melt the underlying nickel. It could be from brazing, but I'm sticking with my original guess of welding.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
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It looks like brazing brass/bronze.
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I'm with brazing splatter too - solder is silver colored and probably wouldn't even stick to a nickle alloy because it doesn't get hot enough.
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Too bad, 1892 is a semi key!
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When in doubt - try it out! I went out to my shop and put some braze and solder on a nickel. Brazing was goldish, and solder was silver but DID stick to the nickel alloy.  |
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Nice work @mark1959! In looking at the rev on the OP's coin, it appears as though the coin itself is melted in one spot (between the V and the rim at three o'clock). That was main reasoning for thinking that the temp needed to be so high.
In the end, though I think that so far everyone has agreed that it was molten metal added to the coin at some point.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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That was main reasoning for thinking that the temp needed to be so high. yeah - I had the cutting torch on my tanks (I wasn't going to take the time to put on a brazing tip) and I got the nickel cherry red - could have easily burned a hole right through it if I wanted to . Heres that cent I torched before to show another point - I just barely put the torches to it and in a few seconds it collapsed into itself.   |
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Super nice error you have there, Mark  |
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Super nice error you have there, Mark |
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@Spence, sure is a nice find in circulation!
@Mark, thanks for the trial run to compare and prove.
@everyone, Thank you guys for the response! So, next question...is there any worth left for this semi key nick? Or is it just one to throw in the oddity pile?
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For me it would be the oddity pile!  |
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