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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 740860, member: 15445&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Let me throw out another couple ideas.&nbsp; Maybe these were discussed in the previous thread. </font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Perhaps it was struck on a tapered planchet.&nbsp; The tapered planchet could have been punched from an edge of the strip which might also explain why the coin doesn&#039;t look exactly round.</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Have you measured the diameter to see if it actually filled the collar?&nbsp; The edge looked kind of funny in the one photo.</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Perhaps it was dissolved (atom by atom) in an electroplating cell where the nickel was the anode which dissolves Ni (atom by atom) and deposits the Ni (atom by atom) onto a cathode.&nbsp; Perhaps your nickel spent some time in an anode basket.&nbsp; The Barite Nickel electroforming system using Nickel Sulfamate has been around since the mid 1900s and other electroplating using elemental Nickel and S-Nickel has been around since the 1800s I think.</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">It certainly does look like it was struck on a smaller planchet like a 3-cent nickel or foreign planchet.&nbsp; However, I didn&#039;t find one that was 3 grams. </font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">If you get an opinion from ANACS or Dominion, please let me know what they say.</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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