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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1919684, member: 4626&quot;]Oh it probably did actually happen, but more is made of it today than it was then, quite likely.&nbsp; The &quot;cents&quot; was added pretty quickly so the problem wasn&#039;t given much time to spread.&nbsp; Perhaps &quot;legend&quot; is a more appropriate term than &quot;myth&quot; because while it certainly actually happened, the scope of the problem has been exaggerated greatly over the years.&nbsp; You&#039;d think more of them were gold-plated than weren&#039;t by the weight people give to it now lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>That aside, keep in mind that the gold-plating would have to be pretty cheap in order to make a fraudulent profit at the time... you&#039;d need to use less than $4.95 worth of gold to make the scam worth it.&nbsp; The gold-plating would thus have to be very thin and crude.&nbsp; By now, that much gold would have flaked off and would not be even, especially if the rest of the coin is worn.&nbsp; So good rule of thumb: if the gold-plating looks good, it&#039;s probably fake (not contemporary).&nbsp; People didn&#039;t do this kind of thing to then not spend it and keep it in a box for 130 years.&nbsp; Quite a lot of the contemporary plated ones were probably destroyed, so it&#039;s likely few, if any, survived to the present, and if they did, the crudity of the plating would be quite obvious.&nbsp; If it is real, likely the gold would be very thin and flaky, and probably mostly gone.&nbsp; If it&#039;s even and uniform, and the whole coin is covered in it even though there&#039;s significant wear, you can be pretty sure the plating wasn&#039;t done in 1883.&nbsp; (How much value a &quot;genuine fake&quot; has is debatable since it&#039;s still an altered coin, but if you care about how authentic the faking is, this is a general guideline for figuring it out.&nbsp; I&#039;m still not sure why a coin collector would want such a thing, and if it&#039;s for the novelty of it, why the authenticity of the novelty matters, but maybe that&#039;s just me; it&#039;s your money, collect what you want, just try not to get ripped off buying something that isn&#039;t what the seller purports it to be.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Again the real irony is more &quot;no cents&quot; nickels are probably being gold plated now than ever were then lol...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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