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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5142477, member: 19463&quot;]I wish I knew.&nbsp; I am not even convinced that all mints and all periods in the hundred years the coins were silvered did it the same way.&nbsp; There is a great deal of difference in the appearance of silvered coins. Some of this is certainly due to how the coin was buried and cleaned but some, I believe, shows that some mints did a better job applying the silver.&nbsp;&nbsp; The thin silver was not a bonded foil like the best fourrees but more likely applied chemically.&nbsp; When I worked in a old fashion photographic laboratory, we would place copper cents in well used fixer chemicals and plate them with silver.&nbsp; Someone back then discovered a way but I do not know the details.&nbsp; Does anyone?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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