1883 V Nickel No Cents Gold Fake

Here is the 1883 V Nickel that was commonly gold plated and sold as a $5.00 gold piece.

 

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WOW, now that is pretty beat. It looks authentic (probably cause it is) as well I've often wondered if electroplating as easy as electroloysis (sp?). How does one get a gold solution though?

Neat Coin
B

 

Beat or neat? LOL or both?

 

OOPS, typo there buddy NEAT

B

 

Bone, you get gold solution by using a chemical that disolves gold and then use electric current to pull it from the solution and plate whatever you run the current through. People commonly try to do this with electric components from computers because an internet article suggested that it was a git rich quick scheme-- it isn't, there is less than a gram of gold in the average motherboard.

 

I'll bet a good strong vinegar solution would do it

B

 

beautiful. I wish I owned one.

 

I always wondered at the debate at whether a gold plated nickel was a contemporary plating or was plated much later... sometimes it's easy to tell, sometimes not... but it is something of a philosophical and semantic quandry as to whether a coin is a true fake, or a fake fake lol...

Plated 1883 no cents nickels were probably not as prevalent as the legendary status of the coins suggests. (The mint wanted to take no chances at people passing off a coin for 100 times its face value... but likely it wasn't a large epidemic or anything, they just quickly added "cents" so as not to take chances.) They were usually very thinly plated though, and if it was a contemporary plating it would likely be flaking off by now, as in this picture.

If the plating is even and seems to have more luster and little to no flaking, especially if the rest of the coin is too worn for that to be reasonably possible, it was probably plated much later.

 

is the edge reeded?

I believe true racketeer nickels should have a reeded edge, since the 5$ gold piece at the time had it.

 

Who ever wants one go out and buy a can of gold spray paint that will work sure looks like that to me.

Jazzcoins Joe:whistle:

 

I think it looks better in blue i just sprayed it
Jazzcoins Joe

 

Mine pictured is not reeded. But IMO since this was a new coin people might have thought the new coin wouldn't have the reeded edge.

I have never seen a reeded gold plated V nickel. That would be nice to have though. If someone has one please post the picture.

 

They say there's more gold in a ton of PC's than a ton of raw gold ore.

Most of those guys buy CPU's, gold fingers(from cards), or pins clipped from the MB (which sucks timewise). I used to sell to them on Ebay. Old Pentium Pros are the most valueable at about $4 apiece, old gold top/bottoms were great too at around $2-3, ceramic p1 at around $2, etc etc. (this was 1 year ago price).

They said you would get about 2-1 money on the investment on CPU's.

Just sharin' the knowledge.

 

One thing is certain: If the gold plating covers worn places on the coin it is not contemporary.

 

I don't think that was common knowledge at the time, and most racketeer nickels I believe were not reeded, under the assumption that people would either not know they were supposed to be or not bother to check too closely. But some so have fake reeding applied. The presence or absence of the reeding doesn't really mark one as real or fake as it wasn't 100% consistent either way. (Be suspicious though if the reeding looks sharper than the rest of the coin.)

As one posted here, a sure sign that the plating is not contemporary is if the plating fills in worn portions of the coin... if it was plated in 1883 (or shortly after) the plating should have worn off in the same places that show wear. The plating was very thin and a little sloppy... if it looks too good, it's probably not contemporary.

 

now I own one too.

 

Phoenix

 

Here, i acctually have a perfect fake "gold plated"