Eisonhower Dollar?!?!?!

No! I dont think so!

 

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JoeMoney sir I for one believe it is gold so as a representative of Spider I must respectfully say your response there is erroneous.

 

O.K. Spider, now I'm being serious! You were right and I never plated a silver dollar at the Mint. But, my son does auto trim and touch up work and has a system whereby he can gold, silver or bronze plate just about any thing. i.e.: radio antena, window trim, side moldings etc. So he and I did plate a couple of silver dollars with gold leaf and it worked to perfection.

I think you answered your own question when you found no more difference in weight than .1 If it had been gold it would have been much greater than that. You could have also compaired the two coins with a six inch ruller and a pencil. Balance the ruler on the pencil and place the two coins on each end. I believe you will see very little difference, if any . Good luck.

 

You have your opinion and I just posted mine... respectfully!

 

Yes sir but he asked if "anyone" thought it to be gold and I do but you said no one does...Okay now I will say it again yes if it were pure gold it would weigh alot more but my explanation for this is that the core may be a lighter metal.

 

Well have fun but, what I said was NO I do not think so. Enjoy the thread and the chase as I am done with thread!

 

Okay but you'll be missing out on the celebrations once it is proven to be gold without a reasonable doubt!!!!!

 

Gold has many interesting properties aside from being heavy. Conductivity, durability, and that it can be layered as thinly as just a few molecules thick. That's thin enough to see through . That being said, is it possible to be a thin enough plating to not significantly alter the weight of the coin?

 

Must say that I just don't know at this time Lawdogct.

 

Having read most of this thread (and having learned a lot by having done so), quite frankly, I find it darn hard to find any holes in GDJMSP's logic. Given what is known about the coin I can't see how it could have come from a US mint. It seems to me that what is left to do is:
1) using methods recomended by lawdogct, determine if there is any gold content in the coin.
2) If it is gold (it would have to have a non-gold core) research what other private mints may have produce golden replicas of the Eisenhower dollar
3) if it isn't gold then you could still search for whether any private mints released any gold-toned Ike replicas, if it still interests you.

I just seems to me that your next step is to confirm whether the exterior metal is gold or not.

JMHO,
Darwin

 

Yes that is true GDJMSP but then again if the planchet is made out of a large percentage of gold itself as I believe then there is your answer as to the added weight!!

 

i am leaning on the brink of fake and valuable, lets go valuable lets go

 

Amen. Maintain the faith it is almost pure gold!

 

Well, to answer your question in that regards my conclusion with that is that there is no silver color showing through but was probably a reflection from a bright light.

 

Well I'd like to see another pic or two. All I've seen is the first one he posted here.