What Chinese Morgan Dollars are made of

CaptHenway

@shorecoll said:
At least it's not toxic or radioactive.

Has that been proven???

dcarr

@CaptHenway said:

@shorecoll said:
At least it's not toxic or radioactive.

Has that been proven???

No. The XRF only registers heavier elements.
There is no significant amount of lead or mercury in it.
But there there could be non-metallic toxins present.
Radioactivity has not been tested.

CaptHenway

When I was in the Chicago area I read a story about how some radioactive item had been thrown into a blast furnace over in Indiana along with a bunch of scrap metal and made into construction rebar that was then used. It was all over Chicagoland, but at very low dose levels.

Kudbegud

@messydesk said:

@dcarr said:

Here is the XRF test results for this thing:

72% copper
23% zinc
1% tin
4% nickel

The nickel component is the outer plating that covers up the brassy color.
Artificial dirt and tarnish was applied on top of the nickel to make it dull.

Nickel plated brass. How anticlimactic. I was expecting it to include melamine and cat.

A radioactive melamine cat could be be a new wonder component for coinage. Never tarnish or wear, low tonnage to mint. The cat may object though.

LanceNewmanOCC

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old thread

for those that haven't seen the inside of a type of morgan counterfeit.
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Type2

@Justacommeman said:
I assumed they were made of sugar and spice and everything nice

mark

Nope old tin cans and black frying pan's that's what little girls are made of, Just made me think of that song.

BigA

Thanks for reviving the thread...very interesting

LanceNewmanOCC

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nearly a one year ttt.

enjoy.
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gotboostedvr6

Cool!

coinsarefun

I want that sooooooooo bad!

oih82w8

It would be pretty neat to have.

drei3ree

Ugh, Chinese counterfeits makes me sick!

batumi

@thebigeng said:
Why counterfeit a 1901 O Morgan? A 1901 S would give you more bang for your buck!

I believe the aim for some of these crooks is to get $20 for a nickel's worth of metal depending on most of their 'clients' not taking more than a cursory glance. Selling these slugs by the thousands along with lax enforcement, keeps these factories churning this crap out.

batumi

@CaptHenway said:
When I was in the Chicago area I read a story about how some radioactive item had been thrown into a blast furnace over in Indiana along with a bunch of scrap metal and made into construction rebar that was then used. It was all over Chicagoland, but at very low dose levels.

I worked construction for years in the Chicago-carpentry-and looked at ALL rebar as radioactive!

BStrauss3

@batumi said:
I worked construction for years in the Chicago-carpentry-and looked at ALL rebar as radioactive!

That's just defensive driving, like assuming everybody on the Eisenhower IS trying to kill you on their way to work.