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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8295992, member: 27832&quot;]It&#039;s never too late to put gold plating on a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a bunch of gold-plated Liberty nickels -- one or two are detailed 1883s, most are worn 1883s, a couple are <i>other dates</i> (yes, with CENTS still on the reverse). I doubt any of mine are &quot;original&quot;. Some of them <i>do</i> appear to have circulated after they got plated, or else whoever plated them did a terrible job.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you see a gold-plated nickel with CENTS, you know it&#039;s not original. If you see one that&#039;s worn, you can be pretty sure it&#039;s not original -- the scam, if it happened at all, would have to have happened when these had just entered circulation and most people hadn&#039;t seen one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I frequently saw Littleton-style plastic-and-cardboard display holders with a gold-plated Liberty nickel and the story. All the ones I saw were heavily worn. I&#039;m quite sure they just took worn nickels, plated them with a few cents worth of gold, and sold them at a hefty markup.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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