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  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
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  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I believe that the story could be accurate. Krause's catalog states that the Belgian coins were struck on the leftover planchets. As for the coins being found in Belgium, who knows?
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Not too likely. The story reads as hype with several inaccuracies or distortions. Yes the 2 franc coins were struck on steel cent planchets.


    << <i>ONLY 25,000 OF THESE BELGIUM COINS WERE STRUCK--THERE AREN'T MANY OF THE BELGIUM 2-FRANC COINS LEFT--JUST TRY TO FIND ONE! >>


    Actually they struck 25 million of them. The seller doesn't know how to read the Krause cataloge. Tthey are a little tough to find in high grade for the same reason that the steel cents deteriorated, but they are available.



    << <i>"These coins are the greatest anomaly in modern United States coinage history. >>


    Not really, the US struck coins for many European countries during World War II.

    and after fifty years in an elevator shaft which are often not air conditioned and humid I would ot expect them to be in nice condition so these have probably been reprocessed and the one you receive won't be as nice as the one pictured.
  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    well, maybe they meant to say they found them in rolls in a bank vault - bought them and put them together in a nice package that cost them 50 cents to make and they want to sell them for $5.

    (I am learning to read between the lines on eBay auctions)
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    I bought some of those from that dealer about a year ago to see what they were. They were replated, it was pretty obvious because they had wear but were nice & silver colored and had pitts that weren't black and plated over bumps. Some had tone like the seller said but not rainbow but rather some gold & purple splotchy tone from the new plating. Junk.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    yes but an available coin i had some original unc coins and i sold them at my local coin meeting about a month ago i think i got like 4 dollars each

    they were original non cleaned non dipped unplated unc coins but with light corrosion

    sincerely michael

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