My best guess is that this is scrap from a clad planchet manufacturing process. It looks like it is a section of 'edge trimming' from a much wider sheet. You can see the nickel metal, if that is what it is, wraps around the rounded side but not the sharply cut side.
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Is that an axe head?
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<< <i>No, but i've seen things on this forum and thought, WTF? ... And then asked what it is.
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My guess is someone tried to pass it off as a bar of silver, it got cut open and is now worth half as much.
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<< <i>Looks like part of an electrical busbar. >>
You're right, it does.
WTH, I'll buy it DMWJR. Buck-fitty?
It is a clad quarter ingot ... before it gets flattened --- at least a cut off piece of one. Pretty cool, eh?
If you don't mind me asking how much does something like that cost?
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