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Ever bite down on a gold coin to make sure that it is real?
Coinstartled
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Does the 10% copper alloy mess it up?
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A picture of US gymnasts biting their (non solid) gold medals got me to thinking...
Only with these ones.
I am not Underdog and I never met Polly Purebred!
Well, maybe I met Polly Purebred, but she wasn't interested in a mutt like me!
I suspect my dental insurer would not appreciate my numismatic endeavors especially if other viable options that make more sense are followed first.
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No.
Hoard the keys.
The better question to this is "Does anyone here have a gold coin with teeth marks in it"?
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No, my teeth are too fragile and important to me to chew on metal.
Ever paid for a crown or chip restoration on a front tooth? Costs more than the gold you are munching on.
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No, but I have bought many $1 gold coins that have little marks like that
No, popcorn is bad enough, caused my last tooth damage.
Once, while visiting the Smithsonian. Right by Star 1. It's real.
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Authentic classic US gold coins are alloyed with 10% copper which makes them fairly hard while the contemporary circulating counterfeits were made with lead that is plated with a thin layer of gold and is thus fairly soft. If you can leave teeth marks in a gold coin it's probably not real.
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The teeth or the coin?
Can't say that I have.
When I was a teenager I traded a friend a fractional California gold piece for a few Morgan Dollars. The 1st thing he did was take it out of the holder and bite that sucker! He bent the crap outta that sucker!
Why do so many of the old $1 gold coins have teeth marks then?
Quite a few $1 gold once resided in jewelry. The marks are probably from that.
I will say it again, most living Americans probably saw Underdog biting a coin, or Americans of a certain age may remember Scrooge McDuck doing the same. Cartoons. Probably less than 1% of living Americans can remember gold coins in daily exchange.
From what I've seen, jewelry marks are usually more of a scratch, etc. The $1 coins are pretty darn thin, and quite a few have a good dent in them, not scratches, etc.
What are you talking about, I just spent a Sac yesterday!
The scratched stuff is just that, scratches.
Saved because of the triumph of endless hope over realism.
Those were the lesser damaged coins - that still got saved when gold went sky-high in 1979-1980 and later in 2010 and 2011. The soldered stuff, the stuff with loops removed, the bent stuff, it mostly went to the pot.
If you put a $1 gold in your mouth, you'd likely swallow it and be looking at your skat for the next several days.
Next time I get a bent one, I might just try it, though I must admit, I have a thing about metal touching my teeth, haha. Gives me goosebumps when someone touches a fork to their teeth.
Any damaged European gold ducat would be easier to try this on. About the same thickness (or thinness) but the larger diameter might be easier to hit with the choppers.
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Nope !!!
No, not good for the coins or your teeth!
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The dollar gold coins were struck on very thin planchets so it would be very easy to damage one by biting it.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Too bad that Coindexter is not still around. He would give it a shot.
NO!
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@MrEureka .... I do not see any marks on the reverse, which I would expect if those were teeth marks... am I missing them?? Cheers, RickO
Maybe Carr can make a fantasy piece with the marks in it.
You're missing TEETH?
Hey! Maybe we've found the origin of ......... BITcoin !!!!
Dibs on royalties.
No... actually have all my teeth...
And since I do, I would expect two things about the pictured coin.... One... no one with no lower teeth would bite down on a gold coin... and Two, if such a bite occurred, there would be marks on the reverse as well. I should have been more specific. Cheers, RickO
What if they bit it on a cracker?
Never.
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Good observation, but you shouldn’t assume that I only had one coin in my mouth.
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@MrEureka ......
Excellent point...... Cheers, RickO
The last time I I was or heard of anything like this was an ancient Amos and Andy show when either Kingfish or Lightning ran a parking lot and bit the quarters people gave them to make sure they weren't fake.
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Actually I have, but not coins. Bars, jewellery, etc. It does work.
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This 1875-S double eagle has marks that might be from tooth imprints. On the reverse, below the “T” in Twenty there is a pair of marks near the rim. The space between the marks could be the gap between the teeth???
Similar marks are in other locations on the reverse, but always near the rim. Otherwise this is fabulous example for an MS62.
Now THAT is one great reply........................
Pete
Well, in a way. I have 4 gold crowns. Each weighs between 5 .5 and 6.5 grams:
The last one had the following alloy:
Au 55.0
Pd 5.2
Ag 30.0
Cu 9.0
In < 1.0
Ir < 1.0
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In my Dad's estate, four years ago, there was an extracted tooth with a gold filling. I got $81 for it (split with my sibs).
Earlier, my sister had a gold tooth from somewhere, I got $61 for that (given to her).
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It looks like the 1875-S $20 has an engraved signature on the obverse in front of the chin.
Any explanation?
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Interesting observation. A close-up image of this region is below.
I can’t say with any confidence whether it is graffiti or random marks. I don’t own the coin to inspect it. I will say that it sold at auction at least twice in the past 10 years and both times for a substantial premium.
Just appears to be random marks to me