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Nickelless
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Saul Mine
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 02:41:18
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| "Melt" is not very meaningful for war nickels because most refiners won't buy them. |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 07:54:00
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| I dont think coinflation takes into account wear and is instead posting numbers as if the coins were straight from the mint. |
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tmaring
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 06/04/2008 : 07:55:13
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| It's the manganese in them... it's a pain to try to refine that out. But you're right, war nickels are one of the greatest silver bargains around! I overstruck them for my "Eye of Sauron" coin, and they look great. They're tricky to anneal, but they come out bright shiny silver looking. There is no cheaper way to come up with a 35% silver blank. |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 08:00:01
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| tmaring - do you have a picture of one of those? I would love to see it. |
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Nickelless
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 21:08:30
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Originally posted by tmaring
It's the manganese in them... it's a pain to try to refine that out. But you're right, war nickels are one of the greatest silver bargains around! I overstruck them for my "Eye of Sauron" coin, and they look great. They're tricky to anneal, but they come out bright shiny silver looking. There is no cheaper way to come up with a 35% silver blank.
Just curious, what is it about the manganese that makes it hard to refine out? |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 21:30:23
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Just curious, what is it about the manganese that makes it hard to refine out?
tmaring can probably answer more accurately but I do believe the manganese is highly flammable and reactive so maybe that's it? |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 06/07/2008 : 11:27:51
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Looks like you could heat the war nickels to 2300 F to form a liquid of the metal alloy and then cool the alloy back to 1800 F. You should have solid copper and Manganese floating on the liquid silver.
Couldn't you drain the silver liquid.
I could see you needing a lot of war nickels to make this commercially work though. |
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Why are APMEX prices way below melt?
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