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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Colonialjohn, post: 3585367, member: 57741&quot;]The coin is a product of a casting process. Most cast coins have around ~5% Lead in the composition. Since this appears as a crude attempt to cast this coin using probably real 1939 Merc coins in this crude mold (i.e., obverse and reverse) this is as you say is maybe a just a whimsy type apparatus to produce a cast coin of a 1939 Mercury Dime. Casting molds even for the George II counterfeits of England are many times more advanced even for the 19thC as compared to this two plate screw job after the mixture is poured into the mold. This looks like a CRUDE 20thC home attempt and as we can see to produce a not very good cast end-product. Interesting group but NOT historically beneficial IMO ... John Lorenzo United States[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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