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BRASS DIME? PICTURES

MorganManiaMorganMania Posts: 9
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What do you guys think? Is it real? Havn't had a chance to weigh it yet...

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  • DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    Most certainly doesn't look like Brass, and if it were, I'm 99% sure it'd be a counterfeit.

    -Daniel
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

    Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

    -Horace
  • MorganManiaMorganMania Posts: 9
    darn it, can someone help me with a better link. I cant seem to get it right. Thanks
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    I have some brass seated dimes. I can't remember the dates, and I'm at work right now.
    They are struck counterfeits, from hand made false dies. You can examine the coins and see the flaws.
    They are contemporary and were made to circulate.
    The counterfeiters would plate them in a silver wash.
    They would put good silver in acid until the acid was charged, then swish the bad coins in it until they were coated.
    It didn't take much circulation to rub off this plating.

    Ray

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