You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
My coins are all the same type (ie. same composition), so I could not compare the sliding performance; on the other hand, my coins do not seem to react to the magnets I have at all.
But a Very interesting experiment, indeed. Thank you for the suggestion.
Orientation would indicate that they are only silver content is only 50% (don't know what the other 50% is) and although I have several magnets the coins do not seem to be magnetic at all. Would I need more powerful magnets for them to react?
Thank you @iiruig and @manny57 for your comments. I only have coins of one type, each in its own plastic holder and uncirculated, so they look very good.
Is there a way to tell by just looking at them that they would be ‘proof’ or not?
You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
My coins are all the same type (ie. same composition), so I could not compare the sliding performance; on the other hand, my coins do not seem to react to the magnets I have at all.
But a Very interesting experiment, indeed. Thank you for the suggestion.
You can compare them to another coin (any country, any denomination) ~ .925 and about 27 grams. There is a large difference between .500 and .925. I've also done similar comparisons with measuring density, although more prone to measurement errors:
Yours seems to be not Proof. This is an example of the Proof coin. You can see that the background field is contrasting w lot with the image of a boat. Under certain angle it looks even black, while the boat doesn't.
You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
Did you build this yourself or did you buy it from somewhere ? I am genuinely interested as this is the first time I've seen something like this.
You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
Did you build this yourself or did you buy it from somewhere ? I am genuinely interested as this is the first time I've seen something like this.
You can very easily tell them apart with a magnetic slide. Here's a screenshot from videos I made with coins of similar size with different silver content.
Did you build this yourself or did you buy it from somewhere ? I am genuinely interested as this is the first time I've seen something like this.
Yours seems to be not Proof. This is an example of the Proof coin. You can see that the background field is contrasting w lot with the image of a boat. Under certain angle it looks even black, while the boat doesn't.
