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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 971095, member: 16269&quot;]Here&#039;s a response to your query by Bill in Burl:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t124021/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t124021/">http://www.cointalk.com/t124021/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Re:&nbsp; Possible 1859 brass Canada Cent&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <blockquote><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I am answering your question in the only way I think possible&nbsp; with my computer.&nbsp; I have tried again and again to answer threads&nbsp; already started and they just keep going further and further to the&nbsp; right and off the page.&nbsp; I can also never find the &quot;post&quot; button.&nbsp; Is is&nbsp; way way way out to the lower right somewhere, but I can&#039;t find it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is my response to your brass 1859 question:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First, you can&#039;t tell a brass cent by dropping it on a hard surface.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You must take the coins into sunlight/daylight .. no artificial light.</p><p>Gently scratch the edge of the coin with a diamond(best) or glass shard.</p><p>If it&#039;s brass, the bare metal will be yellowish .. but even the bronze is a little yellowish</p><p>if you try to wish too hard.&nbsp; The specific wieghts and actual&nbsp; percentages of the alloy mix for the planchets was not always the same.&nbsp; The samll percentages of tin or zinc in the </p><p>copper alloy makes the determination of what constitues &quot;brass&quot; as&nbsp; defined by Haxby, Charlton, or others very difficult.&nbsp; It is my belief&nbsp; and that of other major variety collectors that the &quot;brass&quot; cent was&nbsp; made by accident and not a planned Mint product.&nbsp; I think of it more as&nbsp; an &quot;error&quot; than anything.&nbsp; I am 99.99% sure that you don&#039;t have a brass&nbsp; one.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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