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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 459623, member: 4626&quot;]I always wondered at the debate at whether a gold plated nickel was a contemporary plating or was plated much later... sometimes it&#039;s easy to tell, sometimes not... but it is something of a philosophical and semantic quandry as to whether a coin is a true fake, or a fake fake lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>Plated 1883 no cents nickels were probably not as prevalent as the legendary status of the coins suggests.&nbsp; (The mint wanted to take no chances at people passing off a coin for 100 times its face value... but likely it wasn&#039;t a large epidemic or anything, they just quickly added &quot;cents&quot; so as not to take chances.)&nbsp; They were usually very thinly plated though, and if it was a contemporary plating it would likely be flaking off by now, as in this picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the plating is even and seems to have more luster and little to no flaking, especially if the rest of the coin is too worn for that to be reasonably possible, it was probably plated much later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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