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<p>[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3534587, member: 97119"]I guess anything is possible, but I highly doubt it. It doesn't<i> look</i> plated (which ultimately means nothing), but the weight and dimensions are where they should be, and the clincher for me is the cartwheel luster. If it were plated, the first thing to go would be the microscopic grooves formed by the galvano lathe when making the die, which create the diffraction grating that causes that visual artifact. They're gone in a hurry by simply handling a coin in daily commerce, the metal ridges are so tiny and so thin that they wear away with no effort at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plating would fill them up and leave a "shiny" coin bereft of luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll try to take some photos a bit later. Right now I need to try to get a bit more than the few hours sleep I got last night. (I remember when I was young and healthy and strong and could work 18 hour days 7 days a week (it's <i><b>so </b></i>easy to have your own business), but now my seven decades are feeling like ten.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3534587, member: 97119"]I guess anything is possible, but I highly doubt it. It doesn't[I] look[/I] plated (which ultimately means nothing), but the weight and dimensions are where they should be, and the clincher for me is the cartwheel luster. If it were plated, the first thing to go would be the microscopic grooves formed by the galvano lathe when making the die, which create the diffraction grating that causes that visual artifact. They're gone in a hurry by simply handling a coin in daily commerce, the metal ridges are so tiny and so thin that they wear away with no effort at all. Plating would fill them up and leave a "shiny" coin bereft of luster. I'll try to take some photos a bit later. Right now I need to try to get a bit more than the few hours sleep I got last night. (I remember when I was young and healthy and strong and could work 18 hour days 7 days a week (it's [I][B]so [/B][/I]easy to have your own business), but now my seven decades are feeling like ten.)[/QUOTE]
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