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Check Out These Beauties
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:39 pmby amalekidad
What happed to these 40% Silver halves?
They all came from the same box. Two were in the same roll. Some of the clad halves had some cross contamination from these beauties. I am keeping them. I just wonder if you experts know what happed to them.
Thanks
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:58 amby Lemon Thrower
looks like someone urinated on them.
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:46 amby knibloe
Fire?
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:59 amby blackrabbit
Orange juice?
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:02 pmby amalekidad
Thanks Lemmon Thrower! I'm sure that's it. And here I though it was some kind of rusty water.
Anyone elese got any not so bright ideas like Lemmon Thrower?
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:32 pmby Thogey
They look like wishing well coins
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:02 pmby dan53
If you stay at this for awhile, you will run into more of the "gold plated" halves. Yours have lost alot of the plated luster. That happens over time. By the way, the gold plating only adds a few cents worth of value. I have run into some weird stuff over the years. I once got 3 gold plated halves that had a pic of lincoln stamped on the obverse staring at kennedy nose to nose.
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:28 pmby Greatwun
wow I had a silver bar turn that color when a guy put some testing solution on it
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:14 amby twentybux
Someone urinated fire on them after drinking orange juice.
Re: Check Out These Beauties
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:25 amby beauanderos
Those coins may have been exposed to water with a high iron content, producing a rusty looking residue upon evaporation. It requires iron to actually "rust" but the copper component of 40% halves can oxidize, creating a verdigris appearance, and the silver component can oxidize as well, causing tarnish. If it looks like rust... it didn't come from the coin itself, it was deposited there by an outside process.