fooled me!

[Spartcom5]

Wow do these not look like 40% edges or what? I thought I got a bunch of them but turns out they were just 76 Ds..... could someone have done this on purpose?

 

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[Argentium]

Could someone have done what on purpose ?

 

[mxh5891]

Didn't they make bicentennial halves that were 40% silver? I could swear that they did. Maybe you got a collection dump of them. Hope you didn't dump them yet.

 

[Spartcom5]

Didn't they make bicentennial halves that were 40% silver? I could swear that they did. Maybe you got a collection dump of them. Hope you didn't dump them yet.

Yea they did but those are the S mintmark ones. These are D and defintely arent silver. But i have never seen this color edge on non silver halves before.... These look like 40%ers but they arent, i just thought it was weird

 

[Iamrussell]

Definitely look silver and couldve been painted or silver markered to play a cruel joke

 

[Spartcom5]

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Definitely look silver and couldve been painted or silver markered to play a cruel joke

That's what I was thinking. Not sure how to explain this but they don't look like the were tampered with, they look like an uncirculated edge you'd see on a 40%.

 

[Avago]

Hey Spartcom, I just had one exactly like this last night. It wasn't a bicentennial though, it was a 1977 so I thought maybe it was a transitional error since they did strike silvers the year before (fat chance!) It looked EXACTLY like every other dirty 40% rim I've ever seen but it definitively failed the sound test... it was NOT struck on a silver planchet. The only explanation I could think of is silver plating.

 

[Local_coins]

Keep them until you are absolutely sure

 

[kingskid1611]

Throw them in a wishing well!

 

[Spartcom5]

Keep them until you are absolutely sure

Thanks but yea I dumped them. I dropped them on the floor to test sound and clinked them together and they were not silver at all.