Fake Chinese coins - Recycle bin ?
habs007
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What are they made of and do they have any value ?
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If magnetic then maybe nickel plated iron core? What say you? Peace Roy
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They're made of whatever scrap metal happened to be cheap at the time. very minimal value, to anyone, unless you've got a whole lot of them from the same source as the alloy will be both uncertain and highly variable from coin to coin. If they're magnetic they'll be plated steel; if not, they're probably a brass-ish alloy, usually, with lots of copper and zinc. There may also be metals like lead and other heavy metals that aren't entirely healthy - perhaps even a mercury wash to make it look less yellow. And who knows what noxious chemicals are in the black goo they smear all over them to simulate toning.
So wash your hands after handling them - your health and safety is way, way down the priority list of the people who make these things.
If you're curious about their composition, take one down to a scrap metal merchant and ask for them to do an XRF alloy test on it. A jeweller might have an XRF too, but jewellery XRFs are tuned to look for precious metals, and there won't be any measurable component of precious metal in these things.
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