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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 192154, member: 669&quot;]You have already done the best non-destructive test - you weighed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>At a weight of ~2.5g it is absolutely not a genuine steel coin from the US Mint.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how you determined that it is not plated, but the very slightly low weight you found sure sounds like a zinc core with the copper plating removed IMHO.&nbsp; Your mention of &quot;weak&quot; attraction to a magnet supports the possibility that a thin pure nickel plating has been applied.&nbsp; Real steelies are quite strongly magnetic.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red">BTW please put updated information in a new post instead of editing your original post.&nbsp; Many members use the &quot;First Unread&quot; button to jump to the end of a thread with new postings, and don&#039;t see the later information in the original post.&nbsp; You really should turn on Private Messaging instead of posting phone numbers and email addresses.&nbsp; Among other things that allows the Moderators to easily contact you confidentially when appropriate.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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