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I had a pic of this in another thread but wanted to post it to see if anyone had a good idea what planchet it is silver or a quarter,looks silver but that's just me hoping probably I DO NOT HAVE IT,it's in the mail and cannot weight it yet.   |
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I don't have it,please read before comments are made,not being rude but you guys always give advise without reading,I had it capital letters and said I would weight it.
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In this case, add the tissue test to your lists of tasks along with weighing it when it arrives!  I believe a half dollar struck on a quarter planchet would look more obvious. However, a half dollar struck on a planchet punched from quarter stock (thinner and therefore lighter) would need to weighed for sure. http://goccf.com/t/165427http://goccf.com/t/397628 |
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I don't have it,please read before comments are made,not being rude but you guys always give advise without reading,I had it capital letters and said I would weight it. I am suggesting that you read about the TISSUE TEST. You can certainly do the reading before you receive the coin. For identifying a 40% silver planchet vs. a cupronickel clad planchet, you would use a combination of the weight, the edge color, and the tissue test. |
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I know what to do when it gets here,weight it and done,just asking what you guys think of the pictures,you and everyone here is more knowledgeble than me,I see silver in the pictures but that's far fetched,quarter probably but I put the pics up for some opinions.
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Seems like you just WANT to have a problem with people's opinions here.
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I see silver in the pictures but that's far fetched, Yes indeed. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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No I don't want problems with anyones opinions here but give the opinions I asked for,last post I had I had 2 people say why bother trying to get the coin out of Lucite,because I want too,it's just a fun thing to try,this post I got the how to tell silver and clad answers,I DO NOT HAVE THE COIN HERE I did not ask how to tell if it's silver or a quarter I even said I was going to weight it when it was here,I just asked about opinions on what you guys thought about a quarter planchet or silver planchet by the pictures,I'm not the bad guys here LOL.
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well cannot tell if it were struck on a quarter planchet without a size comparison image - they all look normal to me. Is it possible that the top left one was plated?
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I think we can rule out "struck on a quarter planchet", as this would be half the weight - and this would both look distinctly different, and would have been clearly noticeable to whoever embedded the coin in lucite in the first place.
You won't get any answer that says "yes, that looks like silver", simply because everyone knows that lighting in random photos on the Internet is usually poor and unreliable. That coin in the top left looks whiter than the others, but I suspect this is merely poor lighting (a lightsource over the top left of the object).
As for the question in the other now-deleted thread: removing a coin from lucite is not easy. You've got two options: acetone - and you'll need an awful lot of acetone to depolymerize a large slab of lucite - or you can smash it open with a hammer and hope to cleave it open to release the coins.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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There's no way it was struck on a quarter planchet. The diameter of a half dollar is 6.3mm larger than a quarter - that's a lot, 26% bigger - and the design would be off the edges. Otherwise if it actually looks like that I'd say it was plated. What's with the attitude?
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Valued Member
Canada
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That's an error coin clearly,my opinion only but that's not plated,the reason I say this is not to be cocky but I looked at all the sellers other coin lots and the left coins are always a bit smaller,so it's his camera angle for the pics,it's the same size as the others and looks exactly like the slabbed error coins.
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What does the text of the ad say and how much did you pay for this lot? Like your 1982-D small date copper thread, it's important info to judge whether the seller is being deceptive. Obviously you think this is a 1971-D struck on a 40% silver planchet, which does exist, but your coin looks plated to me. Weighing it isn't going to tell you much since the difference between silver and clad is only .16g so that will depend on tolerance, wear and how much any plating might weigh.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Hi,the 1982 is not here yet and for this one it said 5 1971 Kennedy halves which I paid 8 dollars for them so no deception I can see there,this has the right color and features for an error but I have been wrong on my last many many many coins,I'm posting a new one today I just picked up. |
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