.

Fletcher · July 17, 2006 8:44AM

.

IGWT · July 17, 2006 8:59AM

My understanding is that Gould, Inc. produced the tokens in both titanium and nickel to demonstrate by comparison that titanium was a superior metal for coining.

coindeuce · July 17, 2006 11:11AM

WTF? I thought I was gonna be reading about the discovery of a previously unreported 19th century pattern dollar. Not about a token wannabe widget.

Fletcher · July 17, 2006 11:35AM

<< WTF? I thought I was gonna be reading about the discovery of a previously unreported 19th century pattern dollar. Not about a token wannabe widget.

>>

That's me ... Mr Token Wannabe Widget

tmot99 · July 17, 2006 11:41AM

Maybe titanium looks like nickel and all 3 are labeled correctly.

Fletcher · July 17, 2006 11:44AM

<< Maybe titanium looks like nickel and all 3 are labeled correctly. >>

That was my original thought ... but why would the nickel labelled coins have the word "Titanium" on the obverse, and the titanium labelled coin not have it?

tmot99 · July 17, 2006 11:58AM

Is it possible that these are minted from different times (i.e. some in 1976 and others in 1978)? I'm thinking something similar to the 1883 Liberty nickels with and without cents. Please remember that I know nothing about these coins so these are all guesses.

Is it possible that they minted the nickel ones first to say "Here. This is what they will look like, but in titanium." Then someone said, "Fine. make them in Titanium and let me see what it's like then." And they didn't like the word "Titanium" on the coin so it was removed.

OR

NGC is all screwed up and just playing with your mind.

Fletcher · July 17, 2006 12:05PM

<< NGC is all screwed up and just playing with your mind.

>>

Lol ... then they must be forum members

I think that I'll try submitting them to PCGS for a cross-over and see what they say. Besides, that is the only way that they will fit in one of my wood boxes ...

dcarr · July 17, 2006 2:34PM

Pure nickel is magnetic like iron (try putting a magnet up to a pre-1981 Canadian nickel).
Impure nickel is not magnetic. But you might a test on these with a strong magnet.

dcarr · July 17, 2006 2:35PM

<< 

<< WTF? I thought I was gonna be reading about the discovery of a previously unreported 19th century pattern dollar. Not about a token wannabe widget.

>>

That's me ... Mr Token Wannabe Widget

>>

A lot of the time, the wannabe widget is more interesting than the actual coin.

.

Comments

Leave a Comment