Adventures with Gallium Part II + Making a post 1964 ‘Silver’ Coin

See Adventures with Gallium Part I:

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Today, I decided to make a post 1964 half dollar. As silver stackers know, US coins used to be made of 90% silver. Like the Roman Empire, the US started debasing it’s coins of all silver after that.

After last weeks experiment making a silver ring out of Gallium, today I decided to make a “silver” coin.

The Gallium from last week was still frozen:

With an assist from Mrs. Goldmatters, we were able to melt it back down using a hairdryer:

Using a gold chocolate coin, we were able to remove the chocolate and replace it with Gallium, using it like a mold:

We stuck the top half of the “mold” back on:

And placed it near the enchiladas in the freezer:

A few minutes later we pulled it out:

And had a decent replica: (I said decent, not awesome)

The we made this video:

Only real silver survived!

This is what happened to the post 1964 ‘silver’

Here is the comparison:

We have a winner!

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