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Marshall Mint Angels of the Day coin base metals?
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Anyone know anything about these? They were struck in bronze, silver, gold plated silver and gold. But from what I can tell the coins themselves don't say on them and the COAs are equally useless.
How can you tell if it is gold plated silver or pure gold without destroying it? How infuriating.
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I would imagine you would simply weigh it. Silver and gold have different densities.
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That was my thought but then I can't seem to find weights listed anywhere, and without other examples I'm SOL right?
Give us somewhat accurate dimensions and we could help you figure it out.
Pictures would help.
They pop up on ebay from time to time. Some are very obviously bronze. Others are definitely gold but there is no way to visually see any difference between plated and solid ones.
The people selling them are less than helpful. I was hoping there was some obvious tell I was missing.
My concern is if I start asking for weights and dimensions, the one gold coin I eventually do find will be pulled down and it would be game over anyway.
There are some random Canadian commems like this that are just as aggravating from the 80s and 90s. None of them ever became popular and I assume this is a large contributing factor. It's why I hate them and don't buy them.
One approach is to treat any gold colored one as gold-plated silver. If you buy it as that version but it turns out to be solid gold then you scored.
Or, if you do buy one that is advertised as gold but when you receive it you weigh it and discover that it's just gold-plated silver then you have a basis for a SNAD return at the seller's expense on ebay.
Generally, any advertising will be required by law to state the purity of the coin, but one of the oldest scams around is advertising that weasels around the fact that the coin is actually just plated.
Looking at their current ebay listings, the .999 silver coins they list are stated to be .999 silver, and they are priced accordingly.
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There are a million other things to collect or trade. Why bother with this stuff? Inefficient use of time. Focus.
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