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What causes this coin to glow in the dark?

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    It's from the Hanford Hoard.

    Russ, NCNE
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Maybe it was stored in a warm damp place before it was slabbed! They say

    << <i>This is NOT a dipped out or hazy coin >>

    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Maybe is was stored at 3 mile island?
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • It looks nice, but 3CN's are such a bore image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe is was stored at 3 mile island? >>



    I already covered that cause, nimrod.

    Russ, NCNE


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    << <i>Maybe is was stored at 3 mile island? >>



    I already covered that cause, nimrod.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    Who's Nimrod?
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355
    Ancient king who built The City of Babel, and also:

    "The name took on connotations of a dolt when hunter Elmer Fudd was called "Nimrod" by Bugs Bunny in the popular Warner Bros. cartoons. Long before that, there are recorded instances of its use as a slang word to mean simply "hunter" (from the Genesis account)." (Tip o' the hat to Wikipedia)
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • I think you have been licking too many old stamps. image

    Jonathan

    Edit to say, "You ARE kidding, right?"
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
  • spotthedogspotthedog Posts: 313 ✭✭✭
    It's also mentioned that this coin will cause your eyes to pop out.This is potentially dangerous.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This had to be a southern Nevada coin.....they all glow here!
    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was found in Area 51... imageimage Cheers, RickO


  • << <i>I think you have been licking too many old stamps. image

    Jonathan

    Edit to say, "You ARE kidding, right?" >>

  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Most likely cause would be phosphorluminiscent bacteria--BB.
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777
    I think that one looks like a beaut!! image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • carlcarl Posts: 2,054
    So that is where the missing Radium went.
    Carl
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I will say a coin "glows in the dark" when you really can turn off the lights and still see its reflectivity.... >>



    Reflectivity is not visible in the dark since there is no light to reflect.

    Russ, NCNE
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I will say a coin "glows in the dark" when you really can turn off the lights and still see its reflectivity.... >>

    Reflectivity is not visible in the dark since there is no light to reflect. >>

    Luminescence, not reflectivity.
  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    I would guess that perhaps the Coin was in the presence of a prominent Numismatic Luminary and absorbed a good dose of the purest form of Love that can exist between Human and Coin.
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    The Coin is now so charged that it is leaking off some of that energy in the form of Photons ( light energy ). If scanned with an IR Device, one would probably also detect a slight warmth being radiated by the Coin.

    Or maybe not. image

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