I'm trying to find (any) information about this silvertone medal. It is approximately 2" in diameter. It is uniface - the reverse is matte silver and unmarked. The image on the medal appears to be a Ford Quadricycle (the vehicle Henry Ford first puttered around with around 1895). It has "FORD" in an oval like an early vehicle badge / corporate logo for the Ford Motor Company. I weighed it, and then weighed it again suspended in water. The specific gravity of the metal (approximately) is 8.14, which considering the crudeness of my measuring system (using a tap water filled ramekin and rubber band on a scale that only rounds to the nearest gram) could be anywhere from 7-9. That puts it in the range for nickel, or perhaps a nickel alloy. Weight of the medal is 57 grams, while the displacement weight is 7 grams.
I'm not sure about that but you could also do density, where you measure the water displacement and divide the weight in grams by the displacement in mL
With a specific gravity between 7 and 9, would you peg this as nickel? Or maybe a lower grade silver alloy?
