looks can be deceiving

[conleytheking]

I saw this being spend at a gas station..
It was used as $5 face value.
I gave the gas $10 for it..
And i was certain it was silver...until I googled it..
then

 

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[ImpurestStewart]

Plated?

 

[conleytheking]

From what I could find online...
It has zero silver in it.. Oh well I guess... I payed 10 bucks, and learned never to buy one again lol

 

[ckrakowski]

so what did you google to find out what it was?

 

[ivan salis]

copro nickel most likely

 

[Dok Holliday]

When I was a really young kid my mother bought 2 of these for me. One was the one shown, and the other was the berlin wall falling. When I got back into coin collecting via CRH I looked these up. CU-NI....same metal a nickel is made from...

 

[fistfulladirt]

I'm just curious, but what kind of gas station would accept a novelty coin as payment?

 

[cunextuesday]

Buy gas with it. Problem solved!

 

[Dok Holliday]

I'm just curious, but what kind of gas station would accept a novelty coin as payment?

Most people that work at a gas station aren't very smart. Plus...whoever it was made a quick $5 from it, so they aren't that dumb.

 

[conleytheking]

I'm just curious, but what kind of gas station would accept a novelty coin as payment?

Most people that work at a gas station aren't very smart. Plus...whoever it was made a quick $5 from it, so they aren't that dumb.

+1

 

[Local_coins]

I'm just curious, but what kind of gas station would accept a novelty coin as payment?

Most people that work at a gas station aren't very smart. Plus...whoever it was made a quick $5 from it, so they aren't that dumb.

+1

This reminds me of a story a gas station clerk told me. She had a patron pay with a $5 Indian half eagle!

 

[Stang1968]

I won one of those as a door prize at a local coin show. It's worthless.