Why would a 40% silver coin not *sound* like a silver coin?

Please listen to the sounds in this video.

1st is clad.
2nd is 40% half that "sounds right".
3rd is a 1967 Kennedy half, but... Sounds... Weird?

 

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Its a magicians coin, flip it and it will sound dead. It might be rotated etc.

See this




Here is a thread with more information

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=147641

 

It weighs 114g, just like a "normal" 40% coin. It has a heads and a tails. The rim looks like you would expect on a 40%'er....

 

114g?! I know you mean 11.4g.....well the best I can tell you is to flip them with your hand/fingers and listen. That sounds like a magicians coin to me.

11.5g is the target for a 40% and 11.34g is the clad weight. Yours is right in there.

Is the rotation correct, 180 degrees etc?

You have to inspect the edges real good.

However - I have never heard of a silver one yet..

 

Good catch on the weight. I hate that my digital scale has an extremely small decimal point!

Rotation is correct. Could it just be coated with something?

 

Weight can be off a bit, yours is close enough.

Rotation good is a good thing..


Coated? Well if you flip it as you would a coin you should 'hear' the silver. When you dropped it on the video I was 99% sure it was a magicians coin as it has NO ring at all....

 

The harmonic resonance is off, which clearly means its a voodoo coin with a hex on it. Better get rid of it immediately. Bad coin! Bad!

Sorry, I realize my post is not at all helpful.

 

Sounds like a job for Geordi La Forge! Or at least Scotty...

 

Not Jeff Bellinger by any chance?

 

"Why would a 40% silver coin not *sound* like a silver coin?"

When its been hollowed out??

 

It sounds plastic

 

I really does. Kind of freaks me out.

Of all the proposed solutions presented thus far, that would make the most sense. I'm no expert, but I can't see any seams, and the weight is correct.

Maybe I'll take it to my LCS to get their opinion. I'll hang onto it for the next time I'm at a coin show.

 

I'd go with Doug's explanation, an internally flawed planchet.