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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rascal, post: 1455375, member: 29239&quot;]Has anyone on here ever heard of the silver acid test ? these silver test kits are extremely cheap off Ebay and will last for years. It is easy to tell if a coin is silver or not with the acid test. put a tiny amount on something small like say the sharp end of a needle and put it on the outer edge of the coin as to not damage the coin , if it is sterling silver the acid test area will be blood red and 90% silver will be a little less red. </p><p><br /></p><p>other folks have been guessing about what caused this coin to be this way and as usual my guess is different from the other opinions . It looks like someone has used a metal grinding lathe and removed the outer edge and rim from the op&#039;s coin. this would explain why the coin is so much thinner. when the rim is ground away this removes about half of a coins thickness.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: oops what I wrote does make sense but I just thought about the weight problem. this would probably not remove half of the weight. I&#039;m starting to think this one may be the real thing. If it is a nickle on a dime planchet the planchet managed to be perfectly on center in the dies. the details on this coin looks about right to me where they didn&#039;t fill in the die completely . I noticed that some of the letters looks thin like they should when a thin planchet is struck by bigger dies. This is one that I think would need to be examined close up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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