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While CRH halves, I picked out a 1979 that weights 12.24grams.
It doesn't look silver to me; having what looks to be a copper edge to it.
The scale is solid; use it to weight cents.
Thoughts?
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Can you get pictures of your coin? That would be a big help.
Errers and Varietys.
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02/13/2019 11:59 pm
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By the way, the turned the lighting off on the Obverse pic which made it look copperish...
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The weight seems to be off. Maybe thick planchet stock was used?
Errers and Varietys.
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HMMM I don't know how my other pics replaced the ones I had on the half dollar. did a gravity test: I get 9, 8.81, and 8.87. not looking good for silver also a tissue test with a 1964 and a 1968. I guess we shall just call it a 1979 that was rolled super thick. probably will send to PCGS (maybe) one day. thanks again   |
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More food for thought. Potential strike on a foreign planchet or struck on a blank punched from foreign stock. Philadelphia and San Francisco mint were both producing similar composition this year for foreign coinage.
I'll try and update more detailed info later, as I need to take care of pressing matters here first. Thanks, Doug.
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02/14/2019 1:02 pm
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The edge shows a clad. Why question this?
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Follow up, the closest in weight with 75 Cu, 25 Ni Cupronickel composition was produced for the Dominican Republic 50 Centavos at the Philly mint. Its weight 12.45grams. Note: its not clad and thinking it would show a similar nickel like appearance on the edge. The only clad example I find was produced for the Panama Half Balboa. Note: exact same composition weight and diameter as the US half dollar. In summary, obviously seems struck on a blank from rolled thick stock material. I can not discount the possibility the wrong thickness cupronickel stock was used to create or sandwich the pure Cu, copper center to be used as clad stock. Good luck trying to prove that theory. Thanks, Doug. Quote:
HMMM I don't know how my other pics replaced the ones I had on the half dollar. Meant to add: use unique filenames for image uploads on the same day. The new image will replace a previous one if named the same. Edited by Halo1st
02/15/2019 1:57 pm
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thanks for the research
if/when I send this to be graded, I shall repost.
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