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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2031422, member: 15199&quot;]I suspect that it was produced by a private mint, maybe even the Franklin mint, and it may possibly be silver and has gold electroplated over the 90 % silver coin on the other side to produce the gold appearance. The gold may be 90% but only microns thick. Plated real coins are often found on ebay and other markets, such as popular bullion websites, but they are minted as novelties rather as coins. It would be extremely difficult to prepare such bimetallic blanks to mint, and the US mint certainly did not do so in 1943. It is probably an interesting piece in hand, but I think it was sold at a fair price and that is about all it is worth. Sorry, no disrespect intended. Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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