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Found this in the 80's, roll hunting. Weighs 2.71 grams (mint weight for Cdn.cent 2.80 gr. in Charlton). It's not shiny, so not plated, and it's not magnetic. There is a scrape on the rim and the exposed metal turned black. Anyone know if the mint was making foreign coins in 81 ? Zinc, Aluminum ?   Edited by TerryT
11/26/2017 01:57 am
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Rob, I looked up that NZ coin and it is copper/nickel so it would be magnetic. Couldn't find the thickness but my coin is the same as a Cdn. cent. I seem to remember that maybe the mint did coins for Israel in the 80's ? Here's a photo of the scraped edge, that I forgot to put in the first post.  Edited by TerryT
11/26/2017 02:20 am
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Rob, I looked up that NZ coin and it is copper/nickel so it would be magnetic. The New Zealand copper-nickel coins are not magnetic. Looks like it would be the suspect to me - shame about the rim... "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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Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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How about the diameter?
Cdn penny is 19.05 mm and the NZ 5c is 19.43 mm
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The coin is exactly the same size as a Cdn. cent.
I rechecked the N.Z. coin specs and it's 25% nickel. Would that be enough to make it magnetic ?
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The fact that the NZ planchet was a little too big for the dies might explain the funny edges on the coin? Looks like maybe too much metal was getting squeezed into the available cavity?
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If both coins are the same size (19.05 mm) then the silver-looking one cant be a NZ 5 cent piece
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I rechecked the N.Z. coin specs and it's 25% nickel. Would that be enough to make it magnetic ? Nope - just like the Canadian 5-cent coins after 1982 and before 2000... "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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I'm going to guess it was plated;
When done properly plating adds negligible weight, and doesn't necessarily detract from the overall detailing of the coin.
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There I was thinking," how dare blah, blah, plated, blah blah, I would know, the nerve"... and thinking of writing a nasty reply. Waited and thought about it (unlike certain posters on this site who reply while still upset). Got up the courage to do a scratch test on the edge. CRIPES !! It has a copper hue. (*&%)(^^#(* . Holding on to it for 30 years and it's a bust ! HA !
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