I acquired this coin from a legit coin dealer as a silver coin. According to numista it's 925 Sterling and weighs 1 Ounce. Upon receiving and expecting the coin I detected that it only weighs 27.4 gr. thus off by 4 gr. Plus my precious metal verifier tested it somewhere in the region of brass. Also noteworthy is that my coin has a coin alignment of 3 o'clock ↑→ which is also very weird and uncommon whereas it should be medal alignment. Numista ID 107285
The coin is overall a 100% perfect specimen according to everything else on the Numista page. And strangely enough not one catalogue nor website mentions a cupro-nickel version of this coin. It simply does not exist anywhere.
Thank you. That sounds very interesting . But what does it mean in the end? This coin ain't no rare collectors item so I doubt someone would go through the trouble of forging it.
The only answer I can come up with is that this is a pattern or trial strike. Also because the alignment is a very off 3'o clock.
One possibility is that it's a fake being sold as silver; who's going to check under a capsule?
Apart from you, of course :)
I strongly doubt it's a forgery. Firstly no such forgeries are known anywhere. And secondly, to what end? This coin ain't valuable. Silver Krügerrands I get but not a random coin from Zaire.
