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messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Someone consigned an very small accumulation of gold to me, including two of these. I'll probably return them and recommend they be made into earrings. I'm not even sure how much gold is in them. I've also thought of putting them on a train track or drilling out a cent, inserting one, and running it through an elongate-o-matic machine at a show.

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John
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Ugly........image
    Becky
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    I'll pay 3X face. image
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    what's the weight of these? I'll give spot for it

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,934 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Someone consigned an very small accumulation of gold to me, including two of these. I'll probably return them and recommend they be made into earrings. I'm not even sure how much gold is in them. I've also thought of putting them on a train track or drilling out a cent, inserting one, and running it through an elongate-o-matic machine at a show.

    image >>


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    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>what's the weight of these? I'll give spot for it >>


    Supposedly the two together have 0.0967 oz. gold, which would be just south of $65. I don't know if the alloy is "lean," though.
    John
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay, here is the scoop in case people don't know.
    Liberty Head Gold Dollar (1849-1854)
    Designer: James B. Longacre:
    weight 1.672 grams;
    composition; .900 gold, .100 copper ;
    net weight .04837 oz. pur gold;
    diameter 13 mm;
    reeded edge.

    That's from the red book. Now the coins should still be worth something.
    There were 4,076,051 minted.

    Joe
    They would make good earrings. I could do that for my girlfriend. She'd love it if you have two , let me know.

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    that's a pretty lousy fake.
  • ShortgapbobShortgapbob Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭


    << <i>that's a pretty lousy fake. >>



    I agree. It would be a neat educational piece if purchased cheaply though.
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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    That's just crap
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Even I can tell those are fake!
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>Even I can tell those are fake! >>


    Me too........image
    ......Larry........image
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭



    i'll bet they're from a shipwreck


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if that is a contemporary fake made to circulate as money.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll start. And I'll pic one item that is a dead giveaway. There really are a bunch. So I will list a singular example imageentil or as they say, Denticle
    Look very closely... are you gettting dizzy ?
    .

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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    image
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fakeimage to bad..........
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