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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 568290, member: 4350&quot;]I agree with the plated scenario....they were often plated to be sold at a ridiculous price on shopping networks.&nbsp; There are gold plated,&nbsp; silver, plated and platinum plated ones that are beginning to turn up all over the place.&nbsp; In the past few months,&nbsp; I&#039;ve found several gold plated quarters,&nbsp; nickels, cents, dimes and even a half dollar that someone cut into with pliers to see if it was real gold or just plated.</p><p><br /></p><p>My theory is that these things are being brought into coin shops and the people who bought these altered coins are being faced with the reality that there is no market for them other that the one created on the shopping channels.&nbsp; In other words,&nbsp; they are tampered with, essentially considered, junk coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Confronted with a need for cash due to our current economy,&nbsp; the owners of these coins just roll them up and we find them.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a theory but it seems to account for what appears to be a higher number than usual turning up in the rolls that I search.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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