I was talking to my sister today and she wanted me to ask YOU if any of you have ever heard of the R dimes being gold? she has a roll of them and she said that every other thing looks like a dime except for the color, I have a thought about it, but I'll wait and see if some of you think the same thing. then I'll call her back. Thanks, John
Speedy, she said that she doesn't believe they were toned (her description, they have the same color as a gold ring) so with her saying that I had said they sounded like they were plated, then that led to a long discussion on how somebody could plate them and why, I further explained that they were probably plated re-rolled and when somebody got them how that it would create a big WOW factor, of course it would be hillarious to be a fly on the wall and to know exactly what they were thinking when the "Golden Dimes" broke into light. lol BostonMike, yes plating puts such a miniscule amount on, that how and why would one go to the work to even reclaim, not that she is wanting to do that. Thanks, John
That's the point, nobody would. Even with a whole roll of plated dimes you wouldn't get a dollar's worth.
Your all assuming the plating is Gold. That is rather an expensive and difficult task even if done for a joke or something. Now if it was truely a Gold color remembering that true Gold is very light in color and usually brass, bronze or other metals are added to make it harder and give it a color of Gold. For example White Gold is mixed with Nickel or Chome to make it white since Gold is very pale it easily takes on colors of added metals. Just throwing those dimes into certain chemical solutions could make them Goldesh in color. Getting old but I remember in chem classes we used to put Silver coins in a solution with Copper Cents to watch the ionic movements of the Copper to coat the Silver coins.
Most white gold is made with silver, but I get your point. As for the plating, the easiest way to do it is just like you did with copper - electro-plating. Very little gold is used.
I started to read this thinking a picture would be great and then looked at the date. John said but I'll wait and see if some of you think the same thing. then I'll call her back. Guess he doesn't talk with his sister much leaving us hanging since 2007. Interesting though about gold colored dimes. Someone was probably practicing with an electroplating process or chemistry.
I went to the bank (Credit Union) a while back to make a deposit. One of the tellers was a student of my wife's in high school. She recognized the name on the deposit and she asked me to look at a "gold" quarter that a customer had. I knew what I would find, but I told the teller that I would look at the quarter. I was right. It was a "plated" gold quarter. I didn't ask where the customer got it or home was paid. I told the teller that I would give her a quarter for it. She took it. Now it's in my "junk" box of coins.
The tellers at a bank where I made the company deposit had a half dozen gold half's once. Every now and again they had some odd coins and some old silver yes please.
