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Pair Old Coins - Lead? Pewter?

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 Posted 06/10/2010  07:53 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bobo13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
What do you think?
Tested - not silver.
The crown is 38 mm/ 20.7 gram;
other coin 27 mm/ 11.5 gram.
Received with old coins bulk lot from UK.
Maybe old fake?

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 Posted 06/10/2010  11:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
~21g is too light for the crown to be silver or lead, it is most likely composed of a white metal alloy(varying percentages of tin, zinc, copper, lead, cadmium, etc)
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What do you think about origin? The crown looks from die (not cast)...
Also the second coin - replica of who coin is with this diameter?

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Komsu, 1887 Crown is a cast, seen some examples of them in Russian or ex-Soviet flea markets and coin markets (namely in Yekaterinburg) They seem to be of Chinese origin.. I don't think they're made of dies because of the many cracks and wavelike filling on te surface of the coin.
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