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<p>[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 4898886, member: 101265"]I posted this a few months ago and got a variety of explanations and I have shown it to several local “experts” who have also expressed their opinions on it. The surface is broken and there is what I initially believed to be brown paint underneath.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve been told the discolorization is environmental damage (so why isn’t the whole coin affected? I’ve been told it’s the copper content of a nickel (so shouldn’t it be uniformly mixed with the nickel content?) And it was suggested it is on a quarter planchette and that is the clad layer (but it weighs like a nickel)</p><p><br /></p><p>it may be nothing or it might be something. Whatever it’s definitely unique. [ATTACH=full]1182121[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182122[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182123[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182125[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182126[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182127[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182128[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182129[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182130[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 4898886, member: 101265"]I posted this a few months ago and got a variety of explanations and I have shown it to several local “experts” who have also expressed their opinions on it. The surface is broken and there is what I initially believed to be brown paint underneath. I’ve been told the discolorization is environmental damage (so why isn’t the whole coin affected? I’ve been told it’s the copper content of a nickel (so shouldn’t it be uniformly mixed with the nickel content?) And it was suggested it is on a quarter planchette and that is the clad layer (but it weighs like a nickel) it may be nothing or it might be something. Whatever it’s definitely unique. [ATTACH=full]1182121[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182122[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182123[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182125[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182126[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182127[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182128[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182129[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1182130[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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