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<p>[QUOTE="robert412, post: 1115798, member: 29544"]Can anyone help me with this? Recently I was given a charm that was my grandmother's and inside of it was this coin. From what I understand, is that it was purchased from a jeweler a very long time ago and it looks as if the jeweler made a charm to fit around the coin and clasp together at the top of the wings. </p><p> </p><p>I provided a picture of the back-end of the coin, because it shows wear at the point where the coin sat in the bottom of the charm and collected most of the residue after all these years. What is weird to me is that the wear looks like metal, and I thought the coin was gold, so is this on the outer-side of the coin or did the charm and wear pull a coating off of the coin?</p><p> </p><p>Also, I have checked many places to get a dimension for the coin and it reads as 21mm (approx.) and 8.2 grams (digital scale), so it seems that it was correct to what I read about the coin.</p><p> </p><p>Any help would be much appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robert412, post: 1115798, member: 29544"]Can anyone help me with this? Recently I was given a charm that was my grandmother's and inside of it was this coin. From what I understand, is that it was purchased from a jeweler a very long time ago and it looks as if the jeweler made a charm to fit around the coin and clasp together at the top of the wings. I provided a picture of the back-end of the coin, because it shows wear at the point where the coin sat in the bottom of the charm and collected most of the residue after all these years. What is weird to me is that the wear looks like metal, and I thought the coin was gold, so is this on the outer-side of the coin or did the charm and wear pull a coating off of the coin? Also, I have checked many places to get a dimension for the coin and it reads as 21mm (approx.) and 8.2 grams (digital scale), so it seems that it was correct to what I read about the coin. Any help would be much appreciated.[/QUOTE]
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