Silver or not silver?

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  1. Newbee03

    Newbee03 Well-Known Member

    So I found.this.in.a rolls it was once plated but they punched a hole right where the important digit is. There is no mint mark and I'm not seeing a copper line on the edge what do you guys think? It sounds a little bit like silver but I don't think weighing it will work cause of the hole? received_1431364574297471.jpeg received_103037989433041.jpeg received_243148594842940.jpeg
     
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  3. furham

    furham Good Ole Boy

    You can weigh it to find out. If it's silver it will weigh close to 12.5g. If it's closer to 11.5g than it is not silver.
     
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  4. Kentucky

    Kentucky Well-Known Member

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  5. derkerlegand

    derkerlegand Well-Known Member

    ARghh Matey, it be silver! Plug it with this: half.jpg
     
    derkerlegand, Apr 8, 2023
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  6. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Try everything you have been told and also try the tissue test..
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  7. Newbee03

    Newbee03 Well-Known Member

    So I weighed it and we're at 12.7g and I did the sound test with another 1964 Kennedy and they sound the exact same I think it's silver. Or one good plated clad! received_1622654941584349.jpeg
     
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  8. Morgandude11

    Morgandude11 As long as it's Silver, I'm listening

    Who cares? It is so badly damaged.
     
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  9. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    I’d sell it at my LCS and buy one without a hole fir a few dollars more.
     
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  10. Newbee03

    Newbee03 Well-Known Member

    I don't like it cause of the hole but at the same time it's a chunk of silver that costed 50 cent's so I'm not complaining
     
    Newbee03, Apr 8, 2023
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  11. Morgandude11

    Morgandude11 As long as it's Silver, I'm listening

    Why waste a post for a junk coin like that?
     
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  12. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Not nice
     
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  13. Morgandude11

    Morgandude11 As long as it's Silver, I'm listening

    But true. Too many superfluous posts.
     
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  14. rte

    rte Well-Known Member

    What the heck, I felt like it was a legitimate question.
    Brings his post count up and gets more likes.
    Without the weight confirmation I'd say it's a pocket piece.
    But now that it's silver, pocket piece or hang a keychain loupe on it and use it as a test piece for other silver ring tests.
     
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  15. rte

    rte Well-Known Member

    Well it does say Newbee.
     
    rte, Apr 8, 2023
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  16. Newbee03

    Newbee03 Well-Known Member

    Dude you could simply just scroll right on by and not comment ignorant stuff. Seriously this is a coin group website and I was looking for opinions so I asked closed mouths don't get fed but it's best if some people keep there's closed
     
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  17. Morgandude11

    Morgandude11 As long as it's Silver, I'm listening

    Another nuisance for the ignore list.
     
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Keep it civil, people. Maybe even try a little courtesy? Just sayin’.

    I originally was gonna say “behave, children”, but that wasn’t constructive, either.
     
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  19. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    As to the coin, I’d hang it on my keychain, just for giggles. Why not? Or use it for a bunch of things you’d use a holed coin for. Some of us do collect them. And modern types like this are actually harder to find holed than earlier types are.
     
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  20. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    BTW, if you think this was a tantalizing mystery, imagine what I once went through with one gold dollar I had. It had a hole that almost (but not quite) wiped out the entire mintmark.

    But it had a mintmark. Only the tiniest bit of the left half of the mintmark letter showed- enough to tell it was either an O (New Orleans), or a C (Charlotte)! Talk about suspense!

    The consensus of the specialists who looked at it on Collectors Universe was that it was a C-mint piece, and thus the only Charlotte-mint coin I have ever owned, to date.
     
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  21. MIGuy

    MIGuy Well-Known Member

    My middle name is Superfluous Poste - my dad was John Olde Shoppe.
     
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