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<p>[QUOTE="CaptHenway, post: 3854679, member: 13813"]Can't say anything about it from those pictures.</p><p>Possibility: Contemporary off-metal counterfeit intended to be gold-plated and passed as $20.</p><p>Most Likely: Modern off-metal counterfeit meant to be plated and fraudulently sold to a collector.</p><p>Long shot: Genuine coin improperly cleaned in something like Jeweluster that had previously been used to clean a lot of silver coins. Jeweluster strips silver off of the surface of each coin, which then remains suspended in the solution. If you leave a coin in polluted Jewelluster for a long time you can, sometimes, plate the coin with the silver. I once saw a genuine Proof copper strike of a Liberty $20 that had been plated this way. Looked like dull copper-nickel.</p><p>Do not attempt to clean it. Get weight and specific gravity before doing anything else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CaptHenway, post: 3854679, member: 13813"]Can't say anything about it from those pictures. Possibility: Contemporary off-metal counterfeit intended to be gold-plated and passed as $20. Most Likely: Modern off-metal counterfeit meant to be plated and fraudulently sold to a collector. Long shot: Genuine coin improperly cleaned in something like Jeweluster that had previously been used to clean a lot of silver coins. Jeweluster strips silver off of the surface of each coin, which then remains suspended in the solution. If you leave a coin in polluted Jewelluster for a long time you can, sometimes, plate the coin with the silver. I once saw a genuine Proof copper strike of a Liberty $20 that had been plated this way. Looked like dull copper-nickel. Do not attempt to clean it. Get weight and specific gravity before doing anything else.[/QUOTE]
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