Anyone seen this on a coin before

[prizm II]

Looks like a 64 Kennedy Half, (I cleaned part of the edge looking for copper, only silver showing). At first I thought it was lead spilled onto the coin, but the metal is pretty hard. Could it possibly be silver? If nothing else I'll grind it off to have a 90% coin.

 

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[1320]

Looks like lead to me. While I have never found a coin like yours, I have found two pieces of lead that had a coin "image" in it. One piece of lead had a Shield Nickel image in it, the other, a Wheat Penny. I attempted to recreate some coin images by melting lead then pressing a coin in it as it was cooling...worked pretty good. I have never tried dripping the lead directly on the coin...probably would work much better, if you pulled the lead off the coin at just the right time. Why would anyone want to do this?! I did it out of curiosity.....I would never have thought of it!

 

[prizm II]

Thanks for the reply 1320, if its lead I'll try a torch on it tomarrow and get rid of it. If it is a 64 Kennedy it has about $4.40 in silver!!

 

[skierbob]

Prizm, It looks like it has been in a fire or has had heat applied to it. That would seem to be the likely explanation for the surface bubbles on the coin. Anyway, it has melt value (no pun intended) as a 90% silver coin.
Bob

 

[prizm II]

SO MUCH FOR USING HEAT!! Next time I'll try the Dremmel. I'll still try to sell it for silver. I hate seeing a coin ruined, even if only a common Kennedy half.

 

[kenb]

Thats funny , If it was lead it would have melted off the silver, so at least now you know.

kenb