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I need help identifying this nickel I inherited my grandfathers coin collection But there was this one nickel in mind that I can't find anywhere on the web.The weird part about it is that it feels weightless.please help!!    *** Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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@wb1, first welcome to CCF. Second, it looks like you are showing a nickel that has been hollowed out and joined with a copper or brass section. We see Magician's coins like this with some frequency, but in that case there are two coins matched together. I'm not convinced that you have that here. I do see a very small drilled hole in the O of OF. I wonder if you could stick a pin into that and see if the two halves separate? "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."
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New Member
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Okay so no it doesn't open.
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New Member
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Any other ideas. It weighs 2.45grams
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Ok let's give it some time for others to weigh in with their ideas. Whatever has happened, this coin definitely didn't leave the mint looking like this. Does it rattle like there is something inside there? It looks like a more modern version of this spy coin: https://www.theregaliaspecialist.co...film_message"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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Bedrock of the Community
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Good question, keep asking! to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Squirting nickel? Thanks, Doug.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Halo got it.
See the hole in the O in OF. The blank side flexes. You push in on it and hold it under water and release the pressure to fill it. Then when you are handing it to someone you apply pressure and it squirts them with water from the hole.
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Pillar of the Community
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The older versions looked like a Buffalo nickel, and when you squirted your stooge, you claimed that it was a "water" buffalo. |
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Squirting nickel... well that's cool, never seen something like that before. Learn something new every day!
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Nice job @halo1st! I hadn't heard of a squirting nickel prior to this thread.
"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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There was one posted on CCF some time ago, but I failed short finding the topic. A goggle search will show its another way to alter a coin to make a novelty item worth a few dollars to some (pending it works). Thanks, Doug.
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