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Coin giving a strange reading - 5 Thai baht
Djevel  
Posted : Saturday, 26 October 2013 9:05:02 PM(UTC)
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Was at a playground today and pulled a 5 baht thai coin out, was strange it'd be there but anyway what was wierder was it gave a solid 46 on the 705, the 705 only goes up to 48 so it was right in the silver range. I looked it up and it's almost same size as nz 1 dollar and made of cupronickel at almost the same percentage, seems strange to me - nz dollar coins read 30 to 32..
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chrischch  
Posted : Saturday, 26 October 2013 9:27:24 PM(UTC)
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Thats like an aluminium type signal....I find aluminium foreign coins ring up high like that but if it's cupro-nickel you would think it would be lower.
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Posted : Sunday, 27 October 2013 8:41:45 AM(UTC)
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I guess the cupro (copper) content was very high. Copper reads like silver on my machine.



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