Acetone soak it and see what happens.
You're having FAR too much fun :)
And, it is a half-penny...OK, let me see...9.02 g listed online as should be 9.2202g
Still reminds me of my favorite dealer story. I was told he bought something in 1955 as a kid and got a penny that looked odd. He asked the...
Hey, don't get me wrong, some of the one-ounce copper rounds are really interesting and I have bought a few, but always bid and re-bid on them...
The check is in the mail...
Good luck, submit it when you get it and let us know the results.
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Dang Deke, you're turning into an artist!
Might not help too much since he posted it in 2010.
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I bid $100 Zimbabwe
Wow, English coinage...from ~80BC until now...lots of selection http://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/A%20Short%20History%20of/coins.html
Copper is like $2.00 + per POUND...and the pound is an Av. pound of 454 g. Melt value of a cent is just over 2 cents, except it is ILLEGAL to...
Why cobalt and chromium?
Just a couple of questions about some Mercury Dimes I saw online: First, what the heck caused this, really worn dies? [ATTACH] Secondly is this...
Very cool though. What does it weigh and does it "ring" like silver?
Yeah, both are large PENNIES. At that time George decreed that a penny was an ounce of copper, so the two pence is 62 g of copper (I have one)....
I've wondered about this myself. Silver isn't too bad, and if you make sure the surface is clean (equally clean if possible - including where the...
I really kind of liked the 1797 large cents, and I thought the graffiti/mutilation on the reverse was not really distracting. The Ottoman coin...
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