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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26571846, member: 27832&quot;]That&#039;s... wow. Nope, I&#039;m not sure I could reproduce this if I tried.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve certainly seen stuff crystallize looking like that. But to make <i>metal</i> do that, you&#039;d have to legit <i>melt</i> it, then let it cool very slowly - and there wouldn&#039;t be much left of the design afterward. (Maybe if you induction-heated it in hard vacuum and zero gravity? But then I think you&#039;d get a little approximately-spherical ball of metal. And if you think <i>normal</i> shipping is expensive, try sending something to space and getting it back.)</p><p><br /></p><p>To get a pattern like this, you&#039;d almost need to let something crystallize on the coin&#039;s surface, then leave it there as <i>protection</i> while you etched the coin with something else (because the little needle-like features appear to be raised). And I still don&#039;t think you&#039;d get anything that looks much like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m baffled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless... any chance this is a <i>cast</i> counterfeit? I know just enough about three-cent nickels to know that I can&#039;t judge whether they look right or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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