Hey guys! I just got a shipment of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish coins and I only paid 28 USD for a ton of them! The exchange rate alone is 48 dollars, so I got a steal! Anyway, I was looking through all the Swedish coins to see what they were worth, because I'm only interested in the Norwegian ones, and I found that in that shipment there were 2 silver 50 Öre pieces and 1 silver 25 Öre piece! Woo! You can imagine my excitement, as I'm also a silver stacker! I used this site to find the values and silver content and after those three, I struck gold again (er... Silver rather) - I found a 1968 1 Krona Gustaf VI Adolf! But my question is, how do I tell if it's actually silver? I saw that in 1968 they made cupronickel and silver pieces in this denomination with the same design. Any thoughts? I know the odds are in favor of silver, but I want to make sure before I do a little happy dance, you know? I do know the pitch test, I've thrown a 1973 1 krona that is definitely the cupronickel and the 1968 to compare pitch, and the 1968 is definitely higher, but I'd like to get an expert's opinion on this! Thanks!
It's confusing especially as the diameter and weight are identical. However as silver coins tend to have a much different weight than CuNi types I'm guessing there must be some difference in the thickness in order to get the consistent 5 gram weight.
I only have the CuNi type so I can't test my theory.
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It's normally very easy to tell the silver and CuNi apart. On the latter you can normally see a line along the edge where the two CuNi pieces are joined. This line is absent from the silver variety.
Citeer: hagglundIt's normally very easy to tell the silver and CuNi apart. On the latter you can normally see a line along the edge where the two CuNi pieces are joined. This line is absent from the silver variety.
Citeer: hagglundIt's normally very easy to tell the silver and CuNi apart. On the latter you can normally see a line along the edge where the two CuNi pieces are joined. This line is absent from the silver variety.
There are a lot of exceptions to this.
Maybe you have more experience with these coins than I do, but I can't recall ever seeing a 1968 in moderately circulated condition where said line is not visible.
And in case of doubt, if you have a silver 1967 and a CuNi 1969 you can easily tell the difference by their color.
I do have several, silver and cu/ni of those Swedish crowns (also a 1968 one).
Gold and silver are not magnetic, so I did discover that the silver version (.400) don't show almost any magnetic effects. ... and sterling silver (>.900) don't show any magnetism at all.
