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Pillar of the Community
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what planchet did roger figure it came from.? so many questions.
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Pillar of the Community
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Roger tested the coin to the same specs he used for the 1859 study he used a few years ago in the CN journal
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting...can you post better photos of it?
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Pillar of the Community
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gettin pretty late here, i'll try to get some better pics up tomorrow....
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Pillar of the Community
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So as the previous comment, 61% Au, gold planchet ?
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Pillar of the Community
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That's the xrf results %age wise
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Pillar of the Community
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Could be a Bahamas $10 gold planchet that the RCM minted for them in 1972. 3.2 g and roughly the same diameter (18.5 mm) as a CDN penny (19.05 mm). That would be pretty cool if it were! Edited by johnnysprawl
12/01/2018 9:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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That would be awesome Jonny, It may come to that..........as we keep the journey of this one goin
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Pillar of the Community
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If you are not keeping it, send to PCGS and stick it in one of the main Canadian auctions, cool errors are getting amazing prices lately
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Pillar of the Community
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jonnysprawl do you have a link for the elemental breakdown of them planchettes
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Pillar of the Community
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John100 That be pretty cool to see how much interest it would generate
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Pillar of the Community
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The Bahamas gold planchet is .917 or 22 carat gold, the recent loonie on a dime just sold for 6200 bucks plus tax a really cool error but never though it's a 7000.00 coin
Edited by john100
12/01/2018 10:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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oh yeah, it depends on who is holding a possible fat wallet, so it's said,,,,,,,,,
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Bedrock of the Community
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Wow, the composition results are not at all what I expected!  It doesn't seem to fit the Bahamas $10 composition... Could it possibly be an "accidental" overstrike of an existing coin instead of wrong planchet? In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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What elements would a gold-plated cent give off, and in what % ? Has that been tested as a comparison ? The thicker the plating the higher the Au number ?
As I understand it, the xrf only affects the first several layers of atoms, not deep inside the interior. Thus the copper, tin, and zinc under gold plating could be read by the xrf where the plating was thin and their atoms were also excited by the x-rays.
Notice that the only 3 elements beside gold that are present are the only 3 metals in 1972 cents. If it is the size and weight of a cent, then how could it be over 61% gold and not weigh more ? HMMM, it's actually .14 grams less than listed issue weight ?
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12/02/2018 12:47 am
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