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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 364489, member: 9474&quot;]Well, I could swear that there was a thread about these coins, but after many key word searches, I only came up with one mention of these coins from a post by Drusus from May of last year.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I remember reading the thread about these a while back and so today when I was in my local coin shop I saw one of the assistants searching through a box of junk coins that someone brought in.&nbsp; Tons of people walk in everyday with &quot;grandpa&#039;s&quot; collection of old coins - which are all circulated - but you will never know what you will find.... just see my post from the other day titled &quot;I didn&#039;t win again&quot;&nbsp; (haven&#039;t learned how to link previous threads yet)&nbsp; Anyway, I saw this and asked him how much? At first he said $3, but then said take it.&nbsp; Sweet! Heck, I gave them half my paycheck last week - all I have left is my right kidney and a pint of blood and my wife has dibs on that!!!&nbsp; Anyway, I stole the post that Drusus wrote last may along with his link.&nbsp; Here it is:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/m...toes/dimes.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;One of the most popular exhibits in the American Museum of Atomic Energy is a &quot;dime irradiator.&quot; To date, more than 250,000 dimes have been irradiated, encased in plastic and returned to their owners as souvenirs. The irradiator works as follows: A mixture of radioactive antimony and beryllium is enclosed in a lead container. Gamma rays from the antimony are absorbed by the beryllium atoms and a neutron is expelled by the beryllium atom in the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>These neutrons, having no electrical charge, penetrate silver atoms in the dime. Instead of remaining normal silver-109, they become radioactive silver-110. After irradiation, the dime is dropped out through a slot in the lead container and rests momentarily before a Geiger tube so that its radioactivity may be demonstrated. It is then encased in the souvenir container. Radioactive silver, with a half-life of 22 seconds, decays rapidly to cadmium-110 (In 22 seconds, half of the radioactivity in each dime is gone, in another 22 seconds half the remainder goes, and so on until all the silver-110 has become cadmium). Only an exceedingly minute fraction of the silver atoms have been made radioactive.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my pics:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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