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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mote Dai, post: 59095, member: 3559&quot;]<b>good suggestions</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope it isn&#039;t a type of mercury plating.&nbsp; How common would something like that be for a coin?&nbsp; Why would someone do that?&nbsp; The ends are smoothed somewhat, but I think I can see a little copper showing in the ridges, but it is hard to tell.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I never thought that it might have been struck on a foreign planchett--that is an excellent suggestion.&nbsp; That might explain the weight and unusual &quot;sound&quot; characteristics.&nbsp; I guess that wouldn&#039;t be very common, so I will keep it around instead of feeding it back into the Coke machine (although, that would be a good test of its properties, if a vending machine rejects it, it just might be a foreign planchett!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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