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scooter25scooter25 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭
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So I got some half dollar bank rolls and was going through them and cam across this coin and have no idea what it is. I have tried searching online and I keep getting sintered planchet. i tried to scrape some of it off and its like a super dull yellow underneath the entire coin. It doesn't appear to be painted either. The black is in every bit of the coin. Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks to me like a coin that has spent some time in the ground and shows appropriate surface corrosion/toning. Good news is it's SILVER!
  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My thoughts were buried and perhaps highly heated at one time.
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Images not showing for me but what you describe sounds like fire damaged to me.
    Images now showing and yes appears like some others I've seen images of found in the remains of a house fire.

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  • scooter25scooter25 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭
    Would it being heated explain the yellowing underneath?
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the title I figured this thread would be about Bill Clinton??? Nice coin though anyways!

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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Looks like it's either been heated or possibly environmental damage.

    Silver from the bank is never bad though.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,137 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Silver from the bank is never bad though >>



    Even if it's only 40%image
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think that is a sintered planchet. I have one picked from a bank wrapped roll of Illinois quarters and it looks like it was coated with graphite or dry molybdenum sulfide and has a gray metallic appearance.

    Not the best pics.

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  • mingotmingot Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭
    Looks just like a half dollar i put mercury on 20 years later.
    Sell me a coin or three!
  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't see the heat effect. Coins in water often have a tortured surface as well...
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  • TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    I don't know what caused it but seen a ton of them over the years that look like that.
    Coulld be the composition of the silver.

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We have diggers (metal detectorists) that pop in occasionally... this looks like several dug 40% JFKs I've seen after they've cleaned the soil off. FWIW

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  • scooter25scooter25 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭
    when a coin is damaged like this, is there any way to bring it back? Or is it going to have to go into my scrap silver pile?
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>when a coin is damaged like this, is there any way to bring it back? Or is it going to have to go into my scrap silver pile? >>



    He's a gonner image relegated to 50¢ face or 40% spot silver.
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