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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4258600, member: 19463"]The fourree question is rather easy to solve but carries a price. If the coin is fourree, a scratch made in the dark area will look red or brown below the surface. If the coin is a lamination with crud filling the recess, the color below will be gray. It might be less objectionable to make a deeper scratch somewhere on the edge to see if there is red undr the silver. The photo looks like a fourree but photos lie. Not all plated coins were plated using the same 'recipe' so it is doubly hard to diagnose questionable coins without cutting them in half. That is going way, way too far!</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is fourree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4258600, member: 19463"]The fourree question is rather easy to solve but carries a price. If the coin is fourree, a scratch made in the dark area will look red or brown below the surface. If the coin is a lamination with crud filling the recess, the color below will be gray. It might be less objectionable to make a deeper scratch somewhere on the edge to see if there is red undr the silver. The photo looks like a fourree but photos lie. Not all plated coins were plated using the same 'recipe' so it is doubly hard to diagnose questionable coins without cutting them in half. That is going way, way too far! My guess is fourree.[/QUOTE]
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