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At the store today the service counter clerk saw me and said she had some coins for me. She had a half dozen clad halves and half dozen dollar coins. 2 were 79-D SBA's and 3 were regular Presidential dollar coins. The interesting coin of the bunch was a plated Jefferson Presidential dollar coin. With its silver color and plain edge (the edge lettering was pretty hard to notice right away...) at first I thought it was a foreign coin or a token of some sort. When I got a chance to really look at it I saw that it was a plated US dollar coin. It actually looked pretty good, and better (IMHO) than the original. The pictures really do not do it justice but they are from a cell phone... I assume it is one of those overpriced silver plated coins people buy from late-night TV hucksters, but it really does look good! I suppose though if it really circulated much the plating would wear off in short order. The plating reminds me of Canadian "silver" coins of recent vintage, the nickel plated steel.   |
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Ha ha gold plating a "gold" coin==overkill
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Silver plated gold colored dollar coin? Or just nickle plated?
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Plating on plating. Gotta be a big buck error  |
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Silver plated gold colored dollar coin? Or just nickle plated? I think it is probably one of those silver plated coins they sell for big bucks. Probably has 3 cents worth of silver on it and they sell the for like $50 each or something. ("But wait, there's more! Act now and we will send you 3 more at only $39.95 each!") |
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Golden dollars are not plated. They are clad. The outer layer is manganese brass, the core is pure copper. That being said, nice find!  |
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("But wait, there's more! Act now and we will send you 3 more at only $39.95 each!") You forgot the "Beautiful wood storage box at no additional charge!" |
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Great pick-ups @n9jig! Not as nice as solid silver, but still looks nice.
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You forgot the "Beautiful wood storage box at no additional charge!" Sometimes that box is actually worth more than the coins.  |
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Painful reminder of just how ugly that SBA coin is. |
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Quote:Painful reminder of just how ugly that SBA coin is. If you can't say anything nice, Frog.... |
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I agree that the SBA is ugly. I like the size and feel of it, it is just too bad that the quarter is so large. That would have been an interesting thing if they resized the rest of the coinage in the late 70's to match. |
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I am sure that the silver plated "golden" dollar looks nicer than the original.
This might sound kind of strange but I have gotten over the years 2 gold plated "golden" dollars in rolls. One is a Washington and the other is Madison. They both look really nice and much better than an original "golden" dollar even uncirculated. The gold plating give them a prooflike appearance. I am not spending these. I guess the gold plating wouldn't last very long in circulation.
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For grins, here's the plated SBA I got from my bank a couple of years back.  Personally I like the SBA. Reverse is better than the obverse but the "Carter Quarter" is definitely an interesting piece no matter how you slice it. |
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My Mom used to say you could put lipstick on a pig, ain't gonna make it pretty.
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Posted 09/27/2017 12:17 pm
