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<p>[QUOTE="vlcnrydr, post: 335053, member: 10916"]<font face="Comic Sans MS">I had asked about this coin in another group. This is the answer I received:</font></p><p> </p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue">"If you have a good scale, weight the coin and see if it is light. If so</span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue">you may have one that never got the copper plating. If it is the right</span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue">weight, then it may be one that has been rubbed with Mercury to make it</span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue">slick and silver shinny. Used to do that as a kid before we found out</span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue">how bad Mercury was for you and the enviroment."</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: black">BTW welcome to the forum. This is a great place to learn!</span></span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="color: blue"></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="vlcnrydr, post: 335053, member: 10916"][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I had asked about this coin in another group. This is the answer I received:[/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=blue]"If you have a good scale, weight the coin and see if it is light. If so you may have one that never got the copper plating. If it is the right weight, then it may be one that has been rubbed with Mercury to make it slick and silver shinny. Used to do that as a kid before we found out how bad Mercury was for you and the enviroment."[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=blue][COLOR=black]BTW welcome to the forum. This is a great place to learn![/COLOR] [/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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