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Strange corrosion or fake coin?

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    fire damage?
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    At that point it is really just 'scrap' (my opinion - others may differ)
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks acid splashed.... Cheers, RickO
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Surface degradation of silver/silver chloride electrode in different pH of the
    concrete pore solution
    LINKY
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Heavily damaged real coin in my opinion
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Personally, I love it.
    Is it for sale?

    peacockcoins

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ahhhhh.....

    Found it!

    peacockcoins

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May have been damaged by exposure to very high temperatures without actually being exposed to flame.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a bad planchet to me, deep pitting

    What's the scenario for acid damage as shown on both obv / rev ?
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gut feeling is genuine, damaged.
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My vote is genuine.
    ----- kj
  • lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    bad corrosion maybe a buried coin then dropped in an acidic solution to clean it?
  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,329 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>bad corrosion maybe a buried coin then dropped in an acidic solution to clean it? >>




    I suspect buried. Those types of pits indicate galvanic cell corrosion, can easily take place in a wet environment.
    ----- kj
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps Vincent Price's pocket piece from "House of Wax"? Or something found when a 200 year old coprolite broke apart?

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    Any early opinions on which die marriage this might be?
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,683 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>At that point it is really just 'scrap' (my opinion - others may differ) >>



    It is hard to think of an early U.S. Silver coin with a readable date that is only worth scrap. Most any beginning collector would like this as a filler.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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