Does this count as AT??

DesertRat · September 21, 2004 9:08AM

Found this in a bag of wheaties.

Russ · September 21, 2004 9:11AM

It's not AT, it's in a special category called "crud."

Russ, NCNE

DesertRat · September 21, 2004 9:13AM

It's not AT, it's in a special category called "crud."

Come on Russ...it's a nice, bright, shiny chrome (or mercury dipped) 1958-D. I'm sure coppercoins has a designation for it right?

Tonekiller · September 21, 2004 9:47AM

Not AT but UGLY!

Russ · September 21, 2004 9:49AM

<< <i>Not AT but UGLY! >>

Ugly is a sub-category of the crud category, thus this piece would be classified as ugly crud, or UC.

Russ, NCNE

DesertRat · September 21, 2004 10:00AM

ok on a serious note now. Would that be a typical "quicksilver" mercury dipped coin or did someone take the time to actually chrome plate a cent?

Russ · September 21, 2004 10:03AM

Looks like mercury to me. Have you been holding it? Feeling dizzy? Lightheaded?

Russ, NCNE

DesertRat · September 21, 2004 10:07AM

Looks like mercury to me. Have you been holding it? Feeling dizzy? Lightheaded?

no i hnevt bene hloding it muc..............

ddbird · September 21, 2004 10:16AM

Hey science guys! Mercury is liquid at room temp! Unless hes sitting in a freezer, it has to be something else!

Russ · September 21, 2004 10:20AM

<< <i>Hey science guys! Mercury is liquid at room temp! Unless hes sitting in a freezer, it has to be something else! >>

It bonds to copper.

Russ, NCNE

ddbird · September 21, 2004 10:25AM

Seriously! If mixed with copper I assume it would stay solid, but if it touches copper it will remain that way! Cool, thanks Russ!

dorkkarl · September 21, 2004 8:55PM

looks like mercury coating.

K S

ozzysdad · September 22, 2004 5:31AM

Must be Chrome, don't think mercury sticks to copper, as does gold and silver? I say chrome....

Russ · September 22, 2004 5:33AM

<< <i>Must be Chrome, don't think mercury sticks to copper >>

Yes it does.

Russ, NCNE

kamehameha00 · September 22, 2004 5:40AM

<< <i>Must be Chrome, don't think mercury sticks to copper, as does gold and silver? I say chrome.... >>

It does, my science teacher last year coated one with mercury, and it stuck to it and stayed on.

Typetone · September 22, 2004 6:39AM

Frankly, it just looks like a duck swallowed it and pooped it out.

Greg

dorkkarl · September 22, 2004 8:43PM

painting cents w/ mercury is something a lot of kids would do like in chem lab, etc, back in junior high or high school. i imagine that they don't let kids anywhere near mercury these days though (poisonous)

btw, don't paint mercury onto any silver coins you like, it totally screws up the coin.

K S

Steve27 · September 22, 2004 8:53PM

I was thinking silver plating, but mercury is probably correct. (P.S. don't get mercury on gold either, I've seen a gold ring that had mercury adhered to it, looks like pewter.)

sliderider · September 22, 2004 9:23PM

I'd say it counts more as altered surfaces than artificially toned.

Does this count as AT??

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