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Chris Johnson
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Picked these cois up at a 2nd hand shop a while back, some are .925 silver, some part silver whilst the remainder are cupro nickel. I mainly purchased them due to the sheer size of the coins, as seen in comparison to a $1 coin.

The list is as follows: Top row - 1968 Mexican 25 pesos - .720 silver, Bermuda Silver Wedding $1 - .925 silver, Gibraltar 1970 One Crown - Cupro Nickel, Canadian 1976 $5 - .970 silver, Mauritas 1977 twenty five rupees - .925 silver.

Bottom row: Trsitan Da Cunha 1977 twenty five pence - cupro nickel, 1973 five Marks - .625 silver, 1966 Irish Uprising Anniversary 10 shilling - .833 silver, 1969 Turks & Caigos Islands One Crown - Cupro Nickel, 1977 Bailiwick of Guernsey twenty five pence - Cupro Nickel.

Just for giggles, I ran the silver coins under the Deus coil, and all silvers read 97-98, whilst all the large Cupro Nickel coins read 85-86. :)

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Re; Irish Uprising Commemorative...

per; Numista site...."2 million were minted but 1,270,000 were melted down"...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12041.html

I wonder how many private ones were also melted down 5yrs ago when Silver took a northward hike???...

That's a good haul of coin if the price was right, and that 5 Marks is an interesting piece... :Y:
 
GypsyGoldAu said:
Re; Irish Uprising Commemorative...

per; Numista site...."2 million were minted but 1,270,000 were melted down"...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12041.html

I wonder how many private ones were also melted down 5yrs ago when Silver took a northward hike???...

That's a good haul of coin if the price was right, and that 5 Marks is an interesting piece... :Y:

The most I paid for the largest silver coin was $15, some actually had an incorrect amount of silver labelled on the coins - lower than what it should have been. ;)
 
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